Cool URIs don't change

Tim Berners-Lee's 1998 note arguing that a URI, once published, should keep working indefinitely, and that breaking links is a choice made by poor design rather than an accident of technology.

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Part of threads Can the Web forget? precedent; Names that outlive their hosts poses; Page or thing? precedent

about

• URI concept 1994 [src]

authored by

• Tim Berners-Lee person b. 1955 [src]