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dvanduzer on April 28, 2013 | parent | context | favorite | on: Immutable URLs

A URN is still a pointer. An ISBN is not the book.

alberth on April 28, 2013 [–]

"Immutable URLs " Is a poor headline then.

It should read instead as "immutable content" since the OP intends to never have the content a URL points too to never be lost or changed

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