On 12/1/06, Mike Schinkel <mikeschinkel@...> wrote:
> One of the ways I've planned to use
> http://blog.welldesignedurls.org/ and
> this mailing list is to develop Best Practices related
> to URL-centered URL Design. I intend to present topics
> for discussion and brainstorming with a
> goal of either:
>
> 1.) Building a consensus and then
> publishing "recommended" best practice(s),
> or
> 2.) Publishing all the different opinions in a
> concise manner.

The approach of the microformats community is potentially worth
adopting for the well designed urls project
(http://microformats.org/about/):

"microformats are: ...
- adapted to current behaviors and usage patterns ("Pave the cow paths.")
...
microformats are not: ...
- an attempt to get everyone to change their behavior and rewrite their tools"

I believe an emphasis on uncovering what already works is likely to be
better received than developing a list of priori prescriptions.

Rob