Re: Seeking *opinions* as part of a larger research issue.

A URL in a long-lived document can have the problem that the original
owner stopped paying for it and it now serves malware or phishing
pages. So there can be security implications.

These can be avoided by using example.org, but if there's significance
in the text of the URL that likely doesn't work.

Yes, they should be marked up as code, not as links, as there's no
expectation of traversing them and they are not expressing a link
relationship between the context in which they are embedded and the
resource they may or may not represent.

So to some extent i think this follows from Web architecture and
probably the HTML spec.

liam

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Received on Tuesday, 17 January 2023 21:33:30 UTC