- From: Mark Smith <mcs@pearlcrescent.com>
- Date: Thu, 01 Apr 2004 09:09:57 -0500
- To: Eric Prud'hommeaux <eric@w3.org>
- Cc: public-annotea-dev@w3.org
Eric Prud'hommeaux wrote: > > Do you know what other protocols use this uuid scheme? That it is > specified (and even have algorithms and code) makes it appealing for > this application. But if there some other protocols that use it, we > may discover opportunities to re-use parts of those protocols as well. OSF DCE RPC uses UUIDs (but do people use DCE?) It is used in various LDAP implementations to tag attribute values in a unique way (typically to support server-to-server replication or client-to-server synchronization). Some of these uses are now being proposed as standards in the IETF, e.g., http://www.ietf.org/internet-drafts/draft-ietf-ldup-lcup-06.txt http://www.ietf.org/internet-drafts/draft-zeilenga-ldap-uuid-03.txt UUIDs are also used in COM (by Microsoft and others) as unique identifiers for C++ interface definitions, etc. And also in many XML based efforts (but I don't know the details). > We were looking for something more shapely, and with nicer colors, but > maybe if there's already code we'll forgo aesthetics this time. Understood. -- Mark Smith LDAP Book Information: http://www.ldapbook.com/ What's Next: http://www.pearlcrescent.com/
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