The term "URC" was first coined as Uniform Resource Citation in 1992 by John Kunze within the IETF URI working group as a small package of metadata elements (which became the ERC) to accompany a hypertext link and meant to help users decide if the link might be interesting.
The term "URC" was first created in 1992 by John Kunze within the IETF URI working group as a small set of metadata elements (which evolved into ERC) for use with hypertext links, aiming to guide users on the potential interest of these links.