Re: Proposed text for guidelines doc to implement Ian's suggestion

>   Contrary to some examples set in past years, the use of
>   double slashes as the first component of the <scheme-specific-part>
>   of a URL is not simply an artistic indicator that what follows is a
>   URL:  Double slashes are used ONLY when the syntax of the URL's
>   <scheme-specific-part> contains a hierarchical structure as
>   described in RFC [URI-SYNTAX].  In URLs from such schemes, the use of 
>   double slashes indicates that what follows is the top hierarchical element 
>   for a naming authority.  (See section 3 of RFC [URI-SYNTAX] for more 
>   details.) URL schemes which do not contain a conformant hierarchical 
>   structure in their <scheme-specific-part> should not use double slashes 
>   following the "<scheme>:" string.

Yep, that is much better than the current wording.

....Roy