Re: Are cool URIs for life?

> Are "cool URIs don't change" for life?

There's two sides to this:
1) not breaking dereferencing of an existing URL (link rot)
2) not putting something else at the same URL (content drift)

2 is extremely important, because failure breaks both the identification and location function of the URL.
1 is also important, but less, since failure only breaks location.

> Aside: Please help me decide on this burning issue that I've been
> putting off: https://twitter.com/csarven/status/857569335908454401

My recommendation to anybody starting with Linked Data now:
use HTTPS, because the push toward HTTPS will only become stronger.

For existing systems, we can discuss (and people just did);
but I'd personally just switch to HTTPS for everything.

Ruben

Received on Thursday, 27 April 2017 16:11:17 UTC