[OAI-implementers] OAI identifier resolver

[Xiaoming Liu]

On Tue, 21 Oct 2003, Adam Farquhar wrote:

> Patrick,
>
> Thanks for locating and distributing the pointer to this IETF draft.  It
> appears to be carefully thought through.  It would certainly be much
> better to leverage an existing mechanism, rather than generate a new one
> specifically for OAI.

UUID uses Ethercard address and timestamp to generate unique id. It can
guarantee uniqueness but is not repeatable. Here we want a method which
generate unique id based on baseURL, and the method can be repeated by any
party. So I believe UUID is not appropriate for this purpose.

xiaoming


>
> Regards,
>
> Adam.
>
> Patrick CH Hochstenbach wrote:
>
> >An easy way to assign unique identifiers without using a central registration
> >would be UUID's. See also:
> >
> >ftp://ietf.org/internet-drafts/draft-mealling-uuid-urn-01.txt
> >
> >The uuid is in the processes of becomming an urn scheme. With it's
> >128 bit key as one of the features it is pretty strong preventing
> >collisions (see my previous post).
> >
> >Patrick
> >
> >
> >
>
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