[rektide]

Axiom 2a of the web emphasizes this,

> a URI will repeatably refer to "the same" thing

And further,

> the significance of identity for a given URI is determined by the person who owns the URI, who first determined what it points to.

Which explicitly goes on to say ownership is not well defined because different schemes can have different behaviors.

https://www.w3.org/DesignIssues/Axioms.html#same

The trick is to actually have clients know & understand where instead to link people. If a server shuts down how does that alt-location get persisted & spread?

Effort has faced headwind, but I also really dig Signed Exchanges, which let's servers sign the content it sends & then bundle it together (WebBundles) so other servers can serve it in a trusted way. But the browser will only trust the content for 7 days, because as per this article, the dns owner might change & thats the security compromise. But an app could still parse & use that content, which makes extra sense now that we have Certificate Transparency expectations.