[REBOL] Re: How to generate a UUID?
From: joel:neely:fedex at: 18-Jan-2002 13:16
Hi, Gregg, Sunanda, et al,
Gregg Irwin wrote:
> One use I've been thinking of, and why I think generic global
> uniqueness is important (beyond application specific uniqueness
> requirements), is that of messages and agents which may "travel".
>
> I'll be doing some more research on this, and maybe even hack up
> a little test. Maybe, together, we can come up with something
> that will work for both of us.
>
Just to connect this thread with the well-deserved resurgence of
interest in Rugby...
Imagine a Rugby-based registry that works as follows:
- A developer submits a well-defined set of parameters (e.g.
developer's name, company (if relevant), project, version,
date) to a Rugby service.
- The reponse is an ID guaranteed to be unique because only
(the single instance of!) that service distributes them.
- Anyone can subsequently supply the ID to the service and get
back the identification data from the initial request.
Thoughts?
-jn-
