- From: Krzysztof Janowicz <janowicz@ucsb.edu>
- Date: Thu, 27 Apr 2017 09:21:40 -0700
- To: Ruben Verborgh <Ruben.Verborgh@UGent.be>, Sarven Capadisli <info@csarven.ca>
- Cc: Linking Open Data <public-lod@w3.org>
On 04/27/2017 09:10 AM, Ruben Verborgh wrote: >> 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) I guess this depends on what 'something else' means (and how much it differs). Are we talking about 'identity' here, or statements, or issues related to representation? > > 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 -- Krzysztof Janowicz Geography Department, University of California, Santa Barbara 4830 Ellison Hall, Santa Barbara, CA 93106-4060 Email: jano@geog.ucsb.edu Webpage: http://geog.ucsb.edu/~jano/ Semantic Web Journal: http://www.semantic-web-journal.net
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