Re: Dereferencing Identity Constructs

[Tim Bray <Tim.Bray@xxxxxxx>]

On Jan 31, 2005, at 6:53 AM, Graham wrote:

> Absolutely not Joe times one billion. Any such convention forming 
> jeopardises the persistence of the identifier, since it will get 
> changed when people re-organize their site or fiddle with their 
> features. The id is an identifier and nothing else. Letting them 
> change even once a year is harmful to anyone trying to compile an 
> archive of a feed, and just plain shoddy.

Uh, it seems that you're assuming that "can be dereferenced" is 
equivalent to "will be unstable".  I disagree. -Tim