Rather than de facto URNs, I'd say de facto URLs, but we don't have to quibble over that. I'm on the east coast, unfortunately (North Carolina). HN is going t

Rather than de facto URNs, I'd say de facto URLs, but we don't have to quibble over that. I'm on the east coast, unfortunately (North Carolina). HN is going to start capping the thread depth, but you're welcome to email me if you'd like to talk more (bentrask@comcast.net). I've been trying to come up with an archival web proxy or something sort of related to WARC and the tooling around it, possibly using content addressing (although converting existing web pages seems ugly and I haven't found an ideal way).