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So what happen to that URN discussion? It has been 20 years. Have there been any results I can actually use on the Web today? I am aware that BitTorrent, Freene
by grumbel 5y ago
So what happen to that URN discussion? It has been 20 years. Have there been any results I can actually use on the Web today? I am aware that BitTorrent, Freenet and IPFS use hash based URIs, though none of them are really part of the actual Web. There is also rfc6920, but I don't think I have ever seen that one in the wild.
Hashes aside, allowing linking to a book by it's ISBN doesn't seem to exist either as far as I am aware, at least not without using Wikipedia's or books.google.com's services.
- paleogizmo 5y agoIEEE Xplore at least uses DOIs for research papers. Don't know if anyone else does, though.
- pmyteh 5y agoEveryone uses DOIs for research papers, and https://doi.org/<DOI> https://doi.org/<DOI> will take you there. In fact, I think the URI form is now the preferred way of printing DOIs.
- spc476 5y agoTwenty years on, and I can still link to any item at Amazon as long as I have it's ASIN, and using the template: https://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/<asin id> Say what you will about Amazon (and Jeff Bezos), but I don't think they've broken a URL to any product of theirs ever.
- Causality1 5y agoNot broken perhaps, but I regularly click a link to a product and get a page about a totally different product.
- nikisweeting 5y agoMy understanding is that product pages aren’t immutable, so sellers sometimes change their content instead of making a new page to keep the SEO the original page accumulated. Having public edit history + permalinks to specific immutable revisions of product pages would be nice, but I could see how they’re not incentivized to add it because they don’t want ppl demanding an older price / feature that got edited out later on.