Re: Human-Opaque URIs

Danny Ayers wrote:

> 
> An auxiliary question to Phil's - are dates in URIs actually useful?
> 

I don't like them, but not enough to resist the pressures to having them.

I think they make sense only for URIs which are invariant.

Thus something like a dated version of a W3C tech report which really does 
not change I am happy with having a date in the URL. But something like the 
RDF namespace, the 1999 in there is just plain confusing if you ask me.

You might as well have http://www.w3.org/swick-lassila/rdf# which would be 
just as appropriate for the namespace used by the second RDF working group 
(operating from 2001 to 2004).

Jeremy




Jeremy