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> Interested to hear if there's a 4th, best option.
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I don't know about the broader issue - looking forward to that discussion!
But in this example at least, it seems wrong to be using names as the
identifier at all, because names aren't unique.  What happens when you need
a URI for another Bob (or another Itajaí Cêrebro Raízes)?  So a 4th option
here might be, use better identifiers in the URI and side-step the whole
messy issue.

/me sits in ivory tower eagerly waiting for the real world to join me :)

--Andy