Hi Anthony:

I understand the idea of translating the url to be more
descriptive/friendly, but it worries me that the URI's for exactly the
same object are changing based on the locale.

What happens if a user from a Russian locale sends me a link that is
translated and I try to use it from an English locale?

What happens to load balancers/caches that see the url?  Will a cache
that has cached the responce to:

   GET http://issues.roundup-tracker.org/issue2550888

know that an update to

  http://issues.roundup-tracker.org/ausgabe2550888

(issue in german) should invalidate the cached copy?

I claim this is an issue with cool uri's shouldn't change:
   http://www.w3.org/Provider/Style/URI.html

What does this do to embedded references to issues?  If I take the
last component of the translated URL, and embed it in a message
(e.g. ausgabe2550888 rather than issue2550888 ). Will it be turned
into a link if viewed in a different locale? Will it even be turned
into a link if viewed in its own locale?

Comments?

-- rouilj