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Is there really any good reason for this, or is it just asserting dominance? I know it's often ignored, but I think with a site as important (and as entrenched
by socksy 16y ago
Is there really any good reason for this, or is it just asserting dominance? I know it's often ignored, but I think with a site as important (and as entrenched in links around the web) as Sun's old site really should heed this:
http://www.w3.org/Provider/Style/URI.html http://www.w3.org/Provider/Style/URI.html
- prodigal_erik 16y agoIt was a serious and looming mistake for the web to rely so critically on the identities of content publishers, because it gives some knuckle-dragger in marketing a motivation to break working URLs for pure branding reasons. This could be a valuable service for someone like archive.org, a view of the web as if everyone were competent stewards of their namespaces.
- drinian 16y agoConsidering Oracle's MO, I wouldn't be surprised if they try to wipe out the Internet Archive's backup of Sun webpages for copyright reasons. Sigh.
- metageek 16y ago>It was a serious and looming mistake for the web to rely so critically on the identities of content publishers How else are you going to make a decentralized identifier?