diff --git a/spring-web/src/main/java/org/springframework/web/util/UriTemplate.java b/spring-web/src/main/java/org/springframework/web/util/UriTemplate.java
index 3809eb477a4..96d1725d70e 100644
--- a/spring-web/src/main/java/org/springframework/web/util/UriTemplate.java
+++ b/spring-web/src/main/java/org/springframework/web/util/UriTemplate.java
@@ -30,7 +30,7 @@ import org.springframework.util.Assert;
 
 /**
  * Represents a URI template. A URI template is a URI-like String that contains variables
- * enclosed by braces ({@code {}}), which can be expanded to produce an actual URI.
+ * enclosed by braces ({@code {}}) which can be expanded to produce an actual URI.
  *
  * <p>See {@link #expand(Map)}, {@link #expand(Object[])}, and {@link #match(String)}
  * for example usages.
@@ -39,7 +39,6 @@ import org.springframework.util.Assert;
  * @author Juergen Hoeller
  * @author Rossen Stoyanchev
  * @since 3.0
- * @see <a href="http://bitworking.org/projects/URI-Templates/">URI Templates</a>
  */
 @SuppressWarnings("serial")
 public class UriTemplate implements Serializable {
diff --git a/src/asciidoc/web-mvc.adoc b/src/asciidoc/web-mvc.adoc
index 83e1ae6a59f..e0bd555ab9a 100644
--- a/src/asciidoc/web-mvc.adoc
+++ b/src/asciidoc/web-mvc.adoc
@@ -771,9 +771,7 @@ __URI templates__ can be used for convenient access to selected parts of a URL i
 `@RequestMapping` method.
 
 A URI Template is a URI-like string, containing one or more variable names. When you
-substitute values for these variables, the template becomes a URI. The
-http://bitworking.org/projects/URI-Templates/[proposed RFC] for URI Templates defines
-how a URI is parameterized. For example, the URI Template
+substitute values for these variables, the template becomes a URI. For example
 `http://www.example.com/users/{userId}` contains the variable __userId__. Assigning the
 value __fred__ to the variable yields `http://www.example.com/users/fred`.