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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