Cool URIs Don't Change (1998)
> Do you really feel that the old URIs cannot be kept running? If so, you chose them very badly. Think of your new ones so that you will be able to keep then running after the next redesign.<p>"Never do anything until you're willing to commit to it forever" is not a philosophy I'm willing to embrace for my own stuff, thanks. Bizarre how blithely people toss this out there. Follow the logic further: don't rent a domain name until you have enough money in a trust to pay for its renewals in perpetuity!<p>> Think of the URI space as an abstract space, perfectly organized. Then, make a mapping onto whatever reality you actually use to implement it. Then, tell your server. You can even write bits of your server to make it just right.<p>Oh, well if it's capable of implementing something <i>abstract</i>, I'm sure that means there will never be any problems. (See: the history of taxonomy and library science)