Background
This particular paper talks about identifiers, how they ought to be constructed and
maintained, and how to increase their network effects.
Architecture of the World Wide Web
Issues in Permanent Identifiers.
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1) Are we talking about a permanent ?locator? ? :something which will always get you to a particular resource?
2) Or, are we talking about an ?identifier?,? ? : something which will always identify a specific resource, but may, or may not, get you to the resource.
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