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2004-Jan-10 23:44:22 (local)
2004-Jan-10 22:44:22 (UTC) |
| User: | rse |
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ossp-pkg/uuid/README 1.3 -> 1.4
--- README 2004/01/10 22:21:08 1.3
+++ README 2004/01/10 22:44:22 1.4
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(UUID). It supports DCE 1.1 variant UUIDs of version 1 (time and node
based), version 3 (name based) and version 4 (random number based).
+ UUIDs are 128 bit numbers which are intended to have a high likelihood
+ of uniqueness over space and time and are computationally difficult
+ to guess. They are globally unique identifiers which can be locally
+ generated without contacting a global registration authority. UUIDs
+ are intended as unique identifiers for both mass tagging objects
+ with an extremely short lifetime and to reliably identifying very
+ persistent objects across a network.
+
COPYRIGHT AND LICENSE
Copyright (c) 2004 Ralf S. Engelschall <rse@engelschall.com>
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ossp-pkg/uuid/uuid.pod 1.2 -> 1.3
--- uuid.pod 2004/01/10 20:12:46 1.2
+++ uuid.pod 2004/01/10 22:44:22 1.3
@@ -51,6 +51,14 @@
likelihood of uniqueness over space and time and are computationally
difficult to guess.
+UUIDs are 128 bit numbers which are intended to have a high likelihood
+of uniqueness over space and time and are computationally difficult
+to guess. They are globally unique identifiers which can be locally
+generated without contacting a global registration authority. UUIDs are
+intended as unique identifiers for both mass tagging objects with an
+extremely short lifetime and to reliably identifying very persistent
+objects across a network.
+
A B<UUID> is usually encoded using the ASCII character string
representation described in ISO/IEC 11578:1996: a string
consisting of 8 hexadecimal digits followed by a hyphen,
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