It sounds like the core thesis of this approach is that there is some central service that keeps things in check. The beauty of the web is that it's decentralized, broken links and all.

In the age of bit rot, with Nelson's approach, if a host's link breaks and all references to it are obliterated, we are left with nothing, rather than (at least) a little hint at what used to be there.

> Gary Wolf's 1995 Wired profile of Ted Nelson is still one of the great pieces of tech journalism — and Nelson is still furious about it.