Yes, it was rather late yesterday. It is actually the dichotomy that a URL should be a unique resource identifier for a specific resource, but unfortunately it isn't. When we place a link, we want to be able to query on that specific URL (or URN, as it has become). We want to do late binding, since it is cheaper and more powerful.

what benefits do you see in URLs being unique? not necessarily disagreeing, just curious

- distribute resources at multiple locations

- reverse index to resources

- Easier to move resources

- Cryptographic signatures on id’s