Chronospatial Record Locator (CRL)
A Proposal for Persistent Internet Spacetime Referencing Abstract This document proposes the concept of the Chronospatial Record Locator (CRL), a generalized identifier for persistent records existing within internet spacetime. Unlike conventional URLs, which describe only resource location, a CRL identifies: where a record existed when it existed and how it may be re-observed across temporal layers of the network The concept is intended as a humorous but structurally plausible RFC-style abstraction unifying: web archives geospatial records blockchain histories version control systems persistent identifiers and cultural memory systems under a single chronospatial framework. 1. Introduction The modern internet increasingly contains objects that are not merely resources, but temporally anchored observations. Examples include: Wayback Machine snapshots Git commits blockchain transactions DOI references geotagged photographs archived social...