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From: Keith Moore <[e-mail]>
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Subject: Re: [URN] I18N does not belong in URNs
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>  If people on
> this group seriously would agree to restrict URNs to digits
> only for this reason, I would understand.

Except for grandfathering, we could do this.  As it is, I think
URNs can generally be restricted so that they're unlikely to be
human-friendly.  Existing human-friendly namespaces are unlikely
to meet the requirements for URNs.  Namespaces that do meet the
URN requirements will have their own disciplines for assigning names,
which URNs for those namespaces will inherit.  New URN schemes
must have a specified discipline for assigning names.

Keith