From: Ryosuke Niwa [mailto:rn...@apple.com]
> For our internal documentation purposes, I'd refer having a perm link to a > document that never changes. > > Let's say we implement some feature based on Web IDL published as of > today. I'm going to refer that in my source code commit message. Future > readers of my code has no idea what I was implementing when they look at > my commit message in five years if it refers to the living standard that > changes over time. I agree this is an important use case. Fortunately it is covered by commit snapshot URLs. E.g. https://rawgit.com/heycam/webidl/a90316a16f639aaa3531208fc0451a1b79a35a7d/index.html This is better than expecting that the one time a snapshot happens ("v1"), it also aligns with what you're implementing at the time. (BTW: for streams I have made this concept first-class; at https://streams.spec.whatwg.org/ you can click the "Snapshot as of this commit" link to get https://streams.spec.whatwg.org/commit-snapshots/5bd0ab1af09153fd72745516dadc27103e84043c/.)