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 Allow the browser to make annotations of arbitrary parts of text and publish them as web pages.  Publishing will require servers, which can be provided by volunteers initially, and businesses when the concept is proven.
 * How would you be able to get companies to go along with this? Most corporations would be afraid people would attach annotations to their pages and start spamming. Also, how would you address some pages that are collectively represented by one URL?
-** Companies, and all web page authors, would not have a say in what others publish about their webpages, just as today.  The difference with annotations is that they are easier to create and link to a portion of a web page.  This is a vehicle for free speech, global understanding and democracy.  Users will be able to choose to see or hide the annotations of a web page they are visiting.  As for implementation, the annotations may be stored together with a digest (MD5 sum) or cached local copy of the web page or portion of page that they refer to.
+** Companies, and all web page authors, would not have a say in what others publish about their web pages, just as today.  The difference with annotations is that they are easier to create and link to a portion of a web page.  This is a vehicle for free speech, global understanding and democracy.  Users will be able to choose to see or hide the annotations of a web page they are visiting.
+** Your second question may be asking several different things.  Annotations may be stored together with a digest (MD5 sum) or cached local copy of the web page or portion of page that they refer to.  Then those can be compared with the rendered page to automatically check that the annotation applies.  If you want to annotate any page represented by some URL (for example, a dynamically generated page), do not associate any content with the annotation.  Annotations can also apply to sets of pages represented by different URLs.  An annotation consists of an HTML document (description) and a generalized link to a list of content on addressed pages.  An element in the list can be specified as a start and end address in the given document, possibly together with a digest of the content.
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