> Identifiers and the thing being identified are supposed to be permanently linked together. No, they are not. Where do people even get this ridiculous idea fr

> Identifiers and the thing being identified are supposed to be permanently linked together. No, they are not. Where do people even get this ridiculous idea from? It sure as hell doesn't hold in practice at all, URLs (and the content thwey point to) change all the time for any number of reasons and yet I keep hearing this opinion professed over and over. Links rot, that has been reality even before HTTP existed, and it will continue because Web is decentralized and you can't force your opinion on how it should be managed on everybody.