Hi!

> Hi there, may I ask what link shorteners provide you that w3id does not?
> Eg baked in metrics or 10char urls? Just curious why you would want to
> reimplement.

From what I can see, the target audience of w3id is a relatively small
set of very stable URL prefixes that are used a lot and never change. It
also does not aim at making these URLs shorter, it aims at making them
stable. Adding URL namespace to it is a manual process, and individual
URLs are not stored.

The target of URL shorteners is much bigger set of URLs, many of which
are relatively low-use or transient, but which can be created via
automatic means in great volumes, which make URL shorter and which are
aimed at storing, at least for a while, each URL as individual data piece.

So, for our purposes w3id would not be very useful.
-- 
Stas Malyshev
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