- From: Mark Smith <mcs@pearlcrescent.com>
- Date: Wed, 31 Mar 2004 11:21:28 -0500
- To: public-annotea-dev@w3.org
Jose Kahan wrote: > > What is easier to have, a fail-safe mechanism to produce URNs or > some well specified processing? If it's the former, then let's go > forward with URNs (and send a follow-up message on how to do it :). > Maybe you'd like to adopt the same mechanism used to generate msgids > by some mail client? > > I'm basically proposing that the applications do the same job > that the server does when you publish something and it attributes > a new URL. I do not have an opinion about which approach is better for the bookmark local/global ID problem. But generating globally unique UUIDs is something that quite a few applications and protocols do, and the most widely used algorithm is described here: http://www.ietf.org/internet-drafts/draft-mealling-uuid-urn-03.txt Sample C code is included in that Internet Draft. The UUID-based URIs won't be pretty (e.g., urn:uuid:f81d4fae-7dec-11d0-a765-00a0c91e6bf6) but they should be globally unique. -- Mark Smith LDAP Book Information: http://www.ldapbook.com/ What's Next: http://www.pearlcrescent.com/
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