While I agree the primary aim isn&#39;t shortening, the result is usually much shorter by virtue of cutting out everything non essential to identification. I say this as a non stakeholder in w3id, just a fan.<span></span><div><br></div><div>Nevertheless I take your point that it isn&#39;t automated. I would like to understand the use case better; could you describe a specific scenario?<br><br>Thanks</div><div>Julie </div><div><br></div><div><br>On Wednesday, June 1, 2016, Stas Malyshev &lt;<a href="mailto:smalyshev@wikimedia.org">smalyshev@wikimedia.org</a>&gt; wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">Hi!<br>
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&gt; Hi there, may I ask what link shorteners provide you that w3id does not?<br>
&gt; Eg baked in metrics or 10char urls? Just curious why you would want to<br>
&gt; reimplement.<br>
<br>
>From what I can see, the target audience of w3id is a relatively small<br>
set of very stable URL prefixes that are used a lot and never change. It<br>
also does not aim at making these URLs shorter, it aims at making them<br>
stable. Adding URL namespace to it is a manual process, and individual<br>
URLs are not stored.<br>
<br>
The target of URL shorteners is much bigger set of URLs, many of which<br>
are relatively low-use or transient, but which can be created via<br>
automatic means in great volumes, which make URL shorter and which are<br>
aimed at storing, at least for a while, each URL as individual data piece.<br>
<br>
So, for our purposes w3id would not be very useful.<br>
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Stas Malyshev<br>
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