Re: KD012 URI Persistence

/ Norman Walsh <ndw@nwalsh.com> was heard to say:
| * KD 012
| 3.6.1. URI Persistence
| """a URI should continue indefinitely to refer to that resource."""
| That is not possible, because domain names are not defined and owned  
| for life. There are many social issues which are definitely harmful for  
| this part the World Wide Web Architecture. Asking for URI persistence  
| without solving the domain name issue is like asking people to go  
| university when they can own the price for it. See my issue KD 005.
| 	Another problem with this motto. The "URI owner", owner can be legal  
| entity or a person.
| 	If a legal entity (organization, company, etc) what's happening when  
| the legal entity disappears, what the URIs which relies on domain names  
| are supposed to become.
| 	If a person, and this person dies (natural death or not), what the  
| URIs are supposed to become.
|
| "Indefinitely" is just impossible. It's a completely false assertions,  
| except if the system is organized differently.

Everything you say is true, and that's why it's expressed as a
"should". The section goes onto state explicitly that "URI persistence
is a matter of policy and commitment on the part of the URI owner."

What more could we say?

                                        Be seeing you,
                                          norm

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