[andrew@rivendale.net: Re: Website in slightly better condition]

[Andrew Wilson]

Hi

I keep replying to individual authors instead of the list.

sorry

----- Forwarded message from Andrew Wilson <andrew at rivendale.net> -----

Date: Wed, 10 Apr 2002 10:22:35 +0100
To: Tony Bowden <tony at kasei.com>
From: Andrew Wilson <andrew at rivendale.net>
Subject: Re: Website in slightly better condition

On Wed, Apr 10, 2002 at 07:59:53AM +0100, Tony Bowden wrote:
> On Tue, Apr 09, 2002 at 11:03:39PM +0100, Andrew McFarland wrote:
> > http://www.w3.org/Provider/Style/URI.html
> 
> "Except insolvency, nothing prevents the domain name owner from keeping
> the name."
> 
> Yeah, right.

Yeah that's nonsense.  But that was a throwaway comment, the rest of it
seems fairly sound.  Be careful when you pick your URL/URIs.  I think
this matters more when it's a document rather than dynamic info like say
a video page on blackstar's site.  Does it really mattter greatly if the
format of that changes?  Actually now that I'm thinking about it it
probably does, because other people will probably link to those pages.

Interesting idea, anybody have any ideas about which URIs it might be ok
to change, or should all URIs stay consistant all the time.

As they used to say:

It is never valid for the format of a URI to change.   URis should be
chosen to reflect the content of a page, not it's means of storage or
distribution.  Discuss.

andrew
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