> The great thing about location-based addressing is that an archive of the set of known locations is not subject to the same ownership rules as the canonical l

> The great thing about location-based addressing is that an archive of the set of known locations is not subject to the same ownership rules as the canonical live version of those addresses. Erm, to me this sounds like putting up with link rot as hack around bad IP law? There are already IP exceptions for preservation. And if content-addressing was the norm, geocities-type sites might bow to market pressure to not "own" the content, but merely have some some sort of license for being the exclusive pinning service and running the ads or whatever. This is like avoiding the problem where your the rent on your current apartment doesn't fall as much as the market writ large because your landlord knows moving is not free.