On Aug 13, 2005, at 1:34 AM, Simon Brown wrote:
Just to quote an example, Tim is currently using URL based Atom
IDs, such as :
<id>http://www.tbray.org/ongoing/</id>
<id>http://www.tbray.org/ongoing/When/200x/2005/08/09/Web-2.0</id>
If Tim *moves* his blog to www.timbray.com/ongoing, would you
expect his Atom
IDs to remain the same?
Absolutely, otherwise everyone who subscribes to me is going to see
all the same old articles again, exactly what atom:id exists to
prevent. The fact that I use HTTP URIs for identifiers reflects my
belief that good Web citizenship requires that once something is
published and its URI widely disseminated, it should never ever be
moved; so in my case this scenario is unlikely to arise. -Tim
