Re: ISSUE-81 (resource vs representation)

Ian Hickson wrote:
>> What do you mean by "there's no good way to do a cross reference"? How about
>> something like
>>
>>  Section 5.1.2 of [RFC2616]
>>
>> (assuming you want Request-URI)?
> 
> That wouldn't be a version-independent reference.
> 
> (What HTML5 is referencing here is "the address of the resource from which 
> the Request-URI was obtained", a term from RFC 2616's 14.36 Referer 
> section. If it was an HTML spec, I could just like straight to the ID of 
> the term, but at best I can give the section number and name, which is 
> very brittle.)

I assume that an ID is better than a section number, but is there really 
*any* guarantee that IDs will survive revisions of W3C specs?

BR, Julian