- From: Michael Mealling <michael@bailey.dscga.com>
- Date: Fri, 26 May 2000 14:51:13 -0400
- To: abrahams@acm.org
- Cc: "Arnold, Curt" <Curt.Arnold@hyprotech.com>, "'xml-uri@w3.org'" <xml-uri@w3.org>
On Fri, May 26, 2000 at 02:35:27PM -0400, Paul W. Abrahams wrote: > "Arnold, Curt" wrote: > > Isn't that already achievable by using a URI with a protocol of "uuid:" > > for the namespace and using the UUID generation algorithms. That could > > be a solution for relative URI's that are intended to indicate a document > > specific namespace. > > Where are the UUID generation algorithms described? I couldn't locate a > description of UUIDs using the IETF search facility. And as I asked > John Cowen about OIDs, can anyone get as many UUIDs as > they wish? Can my grandmother get a bushel of them? Part of hte problem with UUIDs is who's definition you go with as several entities have things called UUIDs and/or GUIDs. Microsoft has one definition. Guid.org has another. I think ISO has yet another. Some use an algorithm that includes your MAC address which raises some hairy privacy concerns. The nice thing about most GUIDs is that they're really just a combination of some location, a timestamp, and some hash which make it so that you can create an insane amount of them algorithmicly... -MM -- -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Michael Mealling | Vote Libertarian! | www.rwhois.net/michael Sr. Research Engineer | www.ga.lp.org/gwinnett | ICQ#: 14198821 Network Solutions | www.lp.org | michaelm@netsol.com
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