What happens under the covers is not really a concern to me at this point. The original idea of the web was that the URIs could be messy as they would never be seen by users.
This is sort of a feature of XRI (and I'm speaking here only from my own understanding, motivated by my own personal interests; I haven't been formally delegated to speak on their behalf, nor has anyone instructed me to do so), addressing the issue of namespace value (which even DNS falls prey to) by keeping a unique ID (deliberately constructed to be meaningless to humans, and therefore without value as a "vanity" number) "under the covers", hidden from users but paired with the visible/vanity identifier.
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