Re: [xml-dev] So maybe ID isn't a problem after all.

[Gavin Thomas Nicol <gtn@rbii.com>]

On Tuesday 13 November 2001 04:59 pm, John Cowan wrote:
> Right.  If you grab many of the resources at www.weather.com today, for
> example, you will get completely different entity bodies from what
> you would have gotten yesterday.  That's the idea; people want a
> particular URI (= resource) to specify the current (varying) weather.

I think that as domain names and URL's become more of the social fabric that 
they'll become increasingly less important in and of themselves. Even now, 
they're more or less just a means to an end.