Can rev="canonical" Replace URL-Shortening Services?

Chris Shiflett writes "There's a new proposal ('URL shortening that doesn't hurt the Internet') floating around for using rev="canonical" to help put a stop to the URL-shortening madness. In order to avoid the great linkrot apocalypse, we can opt to specify short URLs for our own pages, so that compliant services (adoption is still low, because the idea is pretty fresh) will use our short URLs instead of TinyURL.com (or some other third-party alternative) replacements."

Comments

Re:Shorten links to avoid messes like this:

[Anonymous Coward]

http://www.socuteurl.com/puppypup

Re:Solving the wrong problem

[Gerzel]

but "fixing twitter" like that would require twitter to take more than 140 characters as you are now asking twitter to also handle the unseen characters in html(thing between the 's).