The acct URI scheme is a proposed internet standard published by the Internet Engineering Task Force, defined by RFC 7565. The purpose of the scheme is to identify, rather than interact, with user accounts hosted by a service provider.^[1] This scheme differs from the DNS name which specifies the service provider.^[2]

The acct URI was intended to be the single URI scheme that would return information about a person (or possibly a thing) that holds an account at a given domain.^[3]

Example

The following is an example of an acct URI:

acct:juliet%40capulet.example@shoppingsite.example