It's a nice idea, but it defeats the idea of using URIs as identifiers. In your example, there are three identifiers for one and the same thing: http://album

It's a nice idea, but it defeats the idea of using URIs as identifiers. In your example, there are three identifiers for one and the same thing: http://albumsite.com/albums/1 http://albumsite.com/albums/1/This_Great_Album http://albumsite.com/albums/1/This_Great_cd If the latter two URLs were redirections to the first one, that issue would be fixed. But then the human readable parts wouldn't appear in the browser's URL line anymore.