On Oct 4, 2005, at 6:03 PM, Orion Adrian wrote:
> On 10/4/05, Ryan King <ryan@theryanking.com> wrote:
>> I disagree- ids which are functional will be less likely to change.
>
> I'm what I like to call a practical idealist. Something between an
> optimist and a realist. At some point, don't we just say that URL+ID
> isn't something people are ever going to pick up on because there's
> just too much momentum with those particular technologies in the wrong
> direction that people will continue to use it the wrong way because
> it's always been used the wrong way?

I don't think there's *that much* momentum. I think that we're still  
with the bounds of making url + id usuable as globally unique  
identifiers- I see people treat them as such all the time.

-ryan