[CharlesW]

> The root of the issue here is that URLs are trying to be human-meaningful and machine-meaningful at the same time, but those requirements are fundamentally incompatible.

The TLDR of TFA is that an API can support both human-meaningful and machine-meaningful URLs.

[DougWebb]

Not really. TFA doesn't talk about what happens when the search fails. sgentle is talking about using human-meaningful urls as identifiers, which doesn't work when the search fails.