David: thank you for your review. I thought that > Admittedly, it is true that, at the first stage of usage of the > 'eurosystem' namespace, the mass production use of the assigned URNs will > be contained in messages carried in cryptographic digital envelopes or > Vitual Private Networks. However, the transparency requirements (needed > for establishing and maintaining public trust into the subject financial > transaction systems), open software development processes, and software > deployment require the origin and authority for the URNs to be easily > identified, and the URNs to be resolved on the public Internet. > Therefore we claim that a Formal URN Namespace is warranted for the > intended purpose. would be good material to add to the draft, it made the situation clear at least for me. And I did think the community section was a bit short. Barry/Miriam, can you coordinate some suggested text before the IESG approval telechat on Thursday? Jari