- From: Ian Davis <iand@internetalchemy.org>
- Date: Thu, 15 Jun 2006 13:46:22 +0100
- To: "Henry S. Thompson" <ht@inf.ed.ac.uk>
- CC: www-tag@w3.org
This is a very interesting and useful document.
One common argument against using HTTP URIs for identification is
persistence, which is covered in section 4.3. However I feel that this
section doesn't address the most common argument which is that when an
organization purchases a domain they become the owner of all associated
URIs with that domain, past or present.
To be a good web citizen this organisation must then take care when
assigning new URIs so as not to re-use an earlier URI for a new purpose.
As is pointed out in the draft the original owner "[does] not have
to register the complete URI anywhere" so it's impossible in practice to
discover the URIs previously assigned. To comply with the AWW constraint
"URIs Identify a Single Resource" would require an exhaustive search of
URI usage.
Over the long term, domains will change hands many times, so it's clear
that this can't scale.
I'd like to see this document address this common argument.
Ian
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