rel Microformats

rel-author, rel-enclosure, rel-license, rel-nofollow and rel-tag

rel values describe the link itself. author, license, nofollow and tag are link types in the HTML Standard; enclosure marks a downloadable attachment such as a podcast file. Parsers collect them page-wide rather than inside an h-* object.

Link relations, including XFN valuesHTMLLive
<a rel="author" href="/about">Erin Smith</a>
<a rel="license" href="https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/">CC BY 4.0</a>
<a rel="tag" href="/tags/html">html</a>
<a rel="enclosure" href="/talk.mp4">Download the talk</a>
<a rel="nofollow ugc" href="https://spam.example/">A commenter's link</a>
<a rel="me" href="https://social.example/@erin">Mastodon</a>
<a rel="friend met co-worker" href="https://josh.example/">Josh</a>

Only rels is shown; rel-urls lists the same links by URL. Google's handling of nofollow and ugc is in nofollow, sponsored and ugc.