RE: <id> and <link> are broken!

["Roger B." <roger@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

> One of those reasons, by the way,
> is the trifling fact that substantially all of the existing Web
> software that actually works - browsers, caches, servers, spiders, all
> that boring stuff - is currently built around that assumption.

Tim,

I won't say you're insane (criminally or otherwise), but that's definitely
an assumption that flies in the face of the dynamic Web. :) Query-strings,
cookies, and sessions effectively nuke any notion that an http: URI alone
can accurately identify a resource.

--
Roger Benningfield