Re: [URN] Re: Relative URLs and URNs

> Thus spoke Keith Moore:
> 
>> If we disallow unencoded '/' within URNs for now, we can always add 
>> relative URNs later when we understand them better.

I couldn't disagree more.

If '/' is disallowed in URNs, then a conforming parser will reject
a URN containing '/'.  That means you will never be able to introduce
relative URNs.  Creating barriers to technology just because it isn't
understood is a mistake, particularly when the only time '/' is
meaningful for *any* URI is when it is used as a base for parsing
relative URIs.

If you aren't using relative forms, then there is no reason to encode '/'.
If you are, then you don't want '/' encoded.  There does not exist a
situation in which it is beneficial to disallow '/' in URNs.

.....Roy