Connecting two recent c4l threads... It seems that the web is rapidly 
moving toward https. I'm tempted to wonder how soon it will be before 
https is the default protocol when you type a bare domain name into your 
browser? [1] With linked data we want cool URIs, where one element of 
coolness is persistence. If it is likely that http URIs will be seen to 
be "unclean" [2] in the near future that would surely be a pressure to 
change them. Should we just go ahead and always use https URIs for 
linked data now?

Cheers,
Simeon

[1] Of course you can do this yourself much of time with HTTPS 
Everywhere <https://www.eff.org/https-everywhere> but I really mean when 
is it so much the norm that chrome/firefox/safari/etc. do that expansion 
out of the box, instead of assuming http.

[2] Perhaps snoopability of http traffic doesn't matter in the bulk 
harvest case but in the case of an individual following a link, any use 
of an http URI could leak significant info about what is being looked at 
even the server immediately redirects to an ssl page.