[tahoe-dev] [tahoe-lafs] #217: DSA-based mutable files -- small URLs, fast file creation

[James A. Donald]

tahoe-lafs wrote:
>  I assume that Nate Lawson did this because the URL to my blog is too long
>  and ugly.

Repeating my previous post in slightly different words:

http://testgrid.allmydata.org:3567/uri/URI:DIR2-RO:j74uhg25nwdpjpacl6rkat2yhm:kav7ijeft5h7r7rxdp5bgtlt3viv32yabqajkrdykozia5544jqa/wiki.html 

is too long and ugly to be exposed to humans and will still be too long 
and ugly if you make it half sized.

http://allmydata.org/pipermail/tahoe-dev/2010-January/003476.html
is too long to be exposed to humans.

Humans should not normally be shown globally unique identifiers at all.