Michael L. Nelson

(jumping in) there's certainly a preference for servers (esp. CMSs) to implement TG/TM, but there's no explicit requirement. As @hvdsomp said, external links are fine (even though their knowledge might...

I've lost the thread -- where is "locator" used as an attribute?

Definitely should not be called a "locator", since that would suggest URL, which it clearly is not. URI or URN would be more accurate, but repetitive and not nearly as...

Do browsers actually change POST to GET? I know RFC 7231 (nee 2616) "allows" it, but they don't have to. https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc7231#section-6.4.3 Note: For historical reasons, a user agent MAY change...

RFC 6573 is the right way to do collection/item. RFC 5988 allows you to override the target URI https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc5988#section-5.2 By default, the context of a link conveyed in the Link...

yes, you're correct. The mementos can point back to the collection but for the TimeMap this will be problematic.

While not definitive, there is some pretty strong evidence that Google worked with wikia.com (and thus transitively mediawiki/Wikipedia) on early rel="canonical" implementations. I guess it's possible wikia.com coordinated on one...

here's another example: inside: https://www.w3.org/TR/2017/REC-shacl-20170720/ and https://www.w3.org/TR/2017/PR-shacl-20170608/ etc. there's: <link rel="canonical" href="https://www.w3.org/TR/shacl/">

just a reminder, the options are between: 1. follow ~10 years of established practice by Google, mediawiki/Wikipedia/wikia, W3C, etc. 2. create a new method

I'll try another pass. Perhaps it's the overloaded word "canonical" that is the problem. Let's replace all instances of "canoncial" with "9f3fda2fef6dda85970e12ce9a9b8cbe", the md5 hash of "canonical": $ echo -n...