Re: What John thinks: public id to URN mapping

[Norman Walsh <ndw@nwalsh.com>]

/ John Cowan <jcowan@reutershealth.com> was heard to say:
| My take on the 9 issues:
[...]
| %-encode PLUS, COLON, and SEMICOLON, but do not encode + when it
| is initial.

I think John is absolutely right. It's simpler and just as useful.

But let's not should make the leading "+" a special case. It's uncommon
if not rare and it seems to be simpler to just say it has to be encoded
than to describe the special case.

                                        Be seeing you,
                                          norm

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