Design Principles (4)
Drawbacks of a standard mapping of version space to URL space (cont’d):
- It hard-codes derived-from relationships into version identifiers, limiting their expressiveness, for example, mandating "1.2" instead of "Jim's interim version".
- Since a specific version's URL is constructed from a version identifier appended to a base URL, it requires all revisions of a resource to be located on the same server, and resources are limited to membership in just a single Vgraph.
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