NEW ISSUE: (1.2) Why do global channel references use "//". Shouldbe single "/" to be consistent with URI syntax

[Eric Johnson <eric@tibco.com>]

Title:  Why do global channel references use "//"? Should be single "/" 
to be consistent with URI syntax

Target: Assembly 1.2 WD 03

Description:

While we call the types of @source and @target attributes on components 
of type anyURI, why are the references to global domain channels using "//"?

In URI-land, the use of "//" after the scheme and colon (as in 
"http://";, "ftp://";) indicates a hierarchical scheme (which, at the 
moment, this is not). In addition, even if we were to treat these URIs 
as hierarchical references, access to the "root" of the current 
hierarchy is always done with a single "/" character, rather than two of 
them.

In XPath syntax, the "//" operates as syntactic shorthand for all 
descendants.

Current use of "//" appears to be syntactically unnecessary, conveys 
intent that isn't meant, and is inconsistent with typical use of a 
single "/" character to access the root.

Proposal:

Change the "//" used to reference global domain channels to a single "/".