See also http://microformats.org/wiki/sharelink-formats for a (recent) related use case
On 8 Aug 2017 7:01 pm, "Kevin Marks" <kevinma...@gmail.com> wrote: > This sounds like what we use uid for in microformats - the url that you > want as the persistent identifier. > > http://microformats.org/wiki/uid - it looks like you wrote this up a > while back, Ed. > > See u-uid in h-entry http://microformats.org/wiki/h-entry > > > > On 8 Aug 2017 5:58 pm, "Ed Summers" <e...@pobox.com> wrote: > >> Hi Kevin, >> >> > On Aug 5, 2017, at 9:19 PM, Kevin Marks <kevinma...@gmail.com> wrote: >> > >> > That use case sounds more like rel="canonical" >> >> You weren't the only one (myself included) who thought that. Michael >> Nelson, one of the authors if the identifier I-D, just wrote a blog post >> explaining why not canonical: >> >> http://ws-dl.blogspot.com/2017/08/2017-08-07-relcanonical- >> does-not-mean.html >> >> I think I'm convinced that canonical isn't the right fit for what they >> are talking about. But if rel=bookmark could be used in <link> elements I >> think it would work better than a slightly similar, oddly named, link >> relation, which IMHO is bound to cause confusion for web publishers. >> >> //Ed > >