- Uniform identification with URIs is valuable...
- Same URI regardless of reason for access
- Same URI regardless of place of access
- Same URI regardless of user agent
- HTTP GET/POST provides uniform access:
- Hundreds of millions of user agents
- Ubiquitous deployment of HTTP libraries
- Crawlers, etc. are HTTP-aware
- Future proofing:
- Alta Vista & Google added value to pages created years before those search engines were built
- Semantic web
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