In particular, clasue 6.1.1 reads in part:
# [T]he registration indicator, public text class, and language fields
# are as specified for formal public identifiers in ISO/IEC 8879:1986.
# The 'topic authority' [the string after the "+//" or "-//"] is
# the owner of <em>the information resource</em> that defines the
# concept. [Emphasis added.]
SGML tribal elders (a set which I am not a member of) may wish to
protest this language and similar language elsewhere in the draft
before it becomes hard-coded in an ISO standard.
-- John Cowan http://www.ccil.org/~cowan cowan@ccil.org You tollerday donsk? N. You tolkatiff scowegian? Nn. You spigotty anglease? Nnn. You phonio saxo? Nnnn. Clear all so! 'Tis a Jute.... (Finnegans Wake 16.5)