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@@ -60,4 +60,4 @@ This NIP allows Clients to connect directly with the most up-to-date relay set f
 
 5. If a relay signals support for this NIP in their [NIP-11](11.md) document that means they're willing to accept kind 10002 events from a broad range of users, not only their paying customers or whitelisted group.
 
-6. Clients SHOULD trim trailing slashes (`/`) from relay URIs to canonicalize connections.
+6. Clients SHOULD deduplicate connections by normalizing relay URIs according to [RFC 3986](https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc3986#section-6).