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From: "Tim Ellison/OTT/OTI" <Tim_Ellison@oti.com>
Date: Fri, 7 Apr 2000 16:25:09 -0400
Subject: Re: Stable URLs
I think that we are not under any moral obligation to provide users with
stand-alone URLs to particular versioned resources.
In regular http, you typically link to a URL without any guarantees that it
will still reach the resource in the future. If a versioning unaware
client wants some URL to a versioned resource, a versioning aware friend
can navigate to the versioned resource, and then bind it into a collection.
The resulting bind will have the same guarantees that any regular resource
URL would provide (i.e., very few). The versioning-unaware client can then
follow the bindings.
Tim