_("Robust Hyperlinks and Robust Locations Home Page"
  | http://www.cs.berkeley.edu/~phelps/Robust/index2.html)

<!--FONT SIZE="-1">[<STRONG>Note</STRONG>: the only real contra
of this proposal <em>as is</em> seems its reliance on search
engines (a _(centralized), little scalable solution).-->

Example of Robust Hyperlink for retrieving the paper that follow:
<BR>_("http://www.google.com/search?q=thinkinginpostscript+cityquilt+fernec+planetext+peroperties"
 | http://www.google.com/search?q=thinkinginpostscript+cityquilt+fernec+planetext+peroperties)

<STRONG>Abstract</STRONG> from _("Robust Hyperlinks Cost Just Five Words Each"
| http://www.cs.berkeley.edu/~phelps/Robust/papers/robust-hyperlinks.html),
Thomas A. Phelps and Robert Wilensky,
Division of Computer Science,
University of California, Berkeley

<BLOCKQUOTE>We propose robust hyperlinks as a solution to the problem of broken
hyperlinks. A robust hyperlink is a URL augmented with a small "signature",
computed from the referenced document. The signature can be submitted as
a query to web search engines to locate the document. It turns out that
very small signatures are sufficient to readily locate individual documents
out of the many millions on the web.

Robust hyperlinks exhibit a number of desirable qualities: they can be computed
and exploited automatically, are small and cheap to compute (so that it is
practical to make all hyperlinks robust), do not require new server or
infrastructure support, can be rolled out reasonably well in the existing
URL syntax, can be used to automatically retrofit existing links to make
them robust, and are easy to understand. In particular, one can start using
robust hyperlinks now, as servers and web pages are mostly compatible as 
is, while clients can increase their support in the future. 

Robust hyperlinks are one example of using the web to bootstrap
new features onto itself.
</BLOCKQUOTE>

A PowerPoint presentation: _("Robust Hyperlinks and Archival Intermemory"
 | http://external.nj.nec.com/homepages/ingemar/course/presentations/Robust%20hyperlink.ppt)

_("Robust Linking: Robust Hyperlinks and Robust Locations"
 | http://elib.cs.berkeley.edu/seminar/2000/20000214.html)

See also: _("The Multivalent Browser -- A Platform for New Ideas"
 | http://www.cs.berkeley.edu/~phelps/Multivalent/),
_("Scalable Document Fingerprinting (Extended Abstract)"
 | http://www-2.cs.cmu.edu/afs/cs/user/nch/www/koala/main.html).