Re: Which URI should be persistent when redirects are used?

On Thu, 2007-09-27 at 09:43 -0400, Alan Ruttenberg wrote:
> There's a potential Semantic Web issue here. It's obvious that the  
> permanent URI would be a reasonable subject of statement, and it the  
> temporary one not, unless the RDF is meant for ephemeral use. If both  
> URIs are permanent, and their meaning isn't distinguished, then both  
> will be used interchangeably and we have a URI alias problem.

Yes. This is hardly news, is it? Life is hard.

Aliases should be avoided when it's feasible, but sometimes it's
not feasible.

-- 
Dan Connolly, W3C http://www.w3.org/People/Connolly/