On 17 Jul 2005, at 11:16 pm, Walter Underwood wrote:
Not unless the robustness principal is stupid and irrelevant. Canonical IDs are more robust. Feeds that use them will work better in the quick-and-dirty, "Desperate Perl Hacker" environment of the internet.
As long as those intermediaries corrupt IDs in exactly the right way. Good luck with that.
Meanwhile, all new postings to my blog will have the ids differentiated by varying the capitalization of the hostname, and nothing else.
Graham
