Jeni's Musings

Is there some parallel to the DNS here? www.example.net is really 123.456.789.123, right now. It might be some other IP later. So id.example.org/124/78 might be found from id.example.org/school/78 right now, but from id.example.org/academy/78 some other day. Since /124/78 is meaningless, there’s no reason ever to change it. What it is doesn’t change, but the context we assign it certainly will.

If we wish to put human-readable meaning in the URI, then it should be a temporary condition. Versioning should be built in, but in a meaningless way. /124/78 might be /school/10Nov2009 right now, but /academy/archival_only/10Nov2009 some day.