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There has been an ongoing debate in the semantic web community, for many years now, about whether identifiers for resources should be URLs or URNs. This debate has recently flared up on the HCLS mailing list in the form of URLs+1 LSIDs -1, and since some of you not in the know maybe wondering what all the fuss is about, in this post I will try to explain why identifiers must be URLs and why the semantic web is broken by design.