[uf-discuss] "Casual Web Services" and Well Designed Urls

[Brian Suda]

On 10/18/06, Mike Schinkel <mikeschinkel at gmail.com> wrote:
> >> but beware of the costs of creating "reserved"/"manditory" structures.
>
> Can you elaborate?  Maybe with examples?

My thoughts were along the same line as Karl's in this post.
http://microformats.org/discuss/mail/microformats-discuss/2006-October/006469.html

Once Paths are declared and "reserved" then they are no longer
available for anyone else to use because there is an 'assumed' usage
already.

For example.
http://example.org/robots.txt
http://example.org/favicon.ico
http://example.org/p3p/

If sony ever came out with a Play Station Portable 3, (p3p maybe) that
URI with /p3p/ would NOT resolve to the expected privacy information,
but to a product page.
(http://www.google.com/search?&q=inurl:p3p&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8)

That was all i was attempting to point out, that by imposing a
structure, you might be breaking other things.

Just a thought.
-brian

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brian suda
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