- From: Martin Hepp <martin.hepp@ebusiness-unibw.org>
- Date: Sat, 28 Jul 2012 23:47:51 +0200
- To: Dave Caroline <dave.thearchivist@gmail.com>
- Cc: Kenley Lamaute <kenleyl@microsoft.com>, "public-vocabs@w3.org" <public-vocabs@w3.org>
I think there is a misunderstanding here: While it is *desirable* that an HTTP URI returns a representation when tried with a HTTP GET method, the role as a unique identifier *does not break* if the inventor of the URI goes bankrupt and stops serving representations from that URI.
On Jul 28, 2012, at 1:36 PM, Dave Caroline wrote:
> I can see a glaring hole in the URI as a unique identifier
>
> If large corp creates a product and defines the uri as
> http:uri.largecorp.com/steamenginetype1
>
> Sells a million but goes bust a while later what of the id
> we now have a dead link breaking the chain
We only have a dead link for browsers, but the link is not dead for building a graph of statements.
Best
Martin
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