Drummond Reed wrote on 2010-01-19:
> The reason I agree with Scott is not because I don t believe in structured
> identifiers as you know I very much do. However I believe Scott s point is
> that with URLs (technically, http: URIs), the entire identifier space under
> the authority belongs to that authority.
That's the "objective argument", but I subjectively also don't agree with using structured identifiers, because I think it's a poor substitute for using markup to express a more complex protocol.
I just don't think flattening everything into a URL is a good approach to extensibility.
-- Scott
