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  • A web publication is not just a collection of links. The table of contents is not the book.

  • The act of publishing involves obtaining resources and organizing them into a publication, which must be "manifested" (in the FRBR sense) by having files on a server.

  • A publication has a publisher. A web publication has an origin. The nature and identity of the publication is determined by the publisher.

  • A portable web publication remembers its origin. It knows from whence it came.

  • A copy of a publication maintains its internal structure, so that references relative to the publication are stable.

  • References to versions of the publication on other origins consist of two parts, the (new) base and the reference relative to the publication itself.

  • Thus a reference to the original can be constructed from the original base and any relative reference.

  • Security and privacy are critical, and there should be no general mechanism obligating readers to share their annotations, or obligating them to view other's annotations.

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