STC in VOResource records

[Patrick Dowler]

On Wednesday 03 January 2007 07:27, Ray Plante wrote:
> A publishing registry shall be responsible for creating IDs within STC
> descriptions which are globally unique.  The convention for doing this
> will be to use an ID of the following form:
>
>      <resource's authority id>_<resource's resource key>_<coordsys key>
>
> where all slashes are substituted with dashes (-) or underscores (_).

Can we just pick one separator rather than  two optional ones? Does this mean 
these separators should not (cannot) be used within authority id or resource 
key or coordsys key? 

PS-I would prefer underscore to dash as a separator, but I am sure it will 
bite me someday :(

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