&gt; Think about how it works with other legal citations. &quot;Fed. R. Civ. P. 12(b)(6).&quot; means something to a lawyer and is irrespective of where they would physically find that court rule to read.<p>Yeah! When I first started up with Perma I advocated a really aggressive shift in how we cite websites, using something that looks a lot more like other legal citations. Maybe something like:<p><pre><code>  Example Title, perma.cc&#x2F;T75S-NF5K (&lt;original domain&gt;, &lt;capture date&gt;).
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... where &quot;perma.cc&#x2F;####&quot; can be treated as a URL if you like, but also just as a legal cite like &quot;### U.S. ###&quot;. This looks <i>so much</i> nicer in legal citations. There&#x27;s lots of interesting variations along these lines.<p>Buuuut that&#x27;s basically a non-starter for most of the legal profession (including courts and law reviews) that just want their citations to make sense to readers today. For now the Bluebook is recommending a much more verbose vendor-neutral &quot;(archived at &lt;url&gt;)&quot; citation format (with Perma as an example!), and we&#x27;re happy with that.