--- uuid.pod 2008/01/10 14:18:47 1.43
+++ uuid.pod 2008/03/07 13:52:41 1.44
@@ -39,9 +39,9 @@
=head1 DESCRIPTION
-B<OSSP uuid> is a ISO-C:1999 application programming interface (API)
-and corresponding command line interface (CLI) for the generation of
-DCE 1.1, ISO/IEC 11578:1996 and RFC 4122 compliant I<Universally Unique
+B<OSSP uuid> is a ISO-C:1999 application programming interface (API) and
+corresponding command line interface (CLI) for the generation of DCE
+1.1, ISO/IEC 11578:1996 and IETF RFC-4122 compliant I<Universally Unique
Identifier> (UUID). It supports DCE 1.1 variant UUIDs of version 1 (time
and node based), version 3 (name based, MD5), version 4 (random number
based) and version 5 (name based, SHA-1). Additional API bindings are
@@ -61,9 +61,10 @@
=head2 UUID Binary Representation
-According to the DCE 1.1, ISO/IEC 11578:1996 and RFC 4122 standards, a
-DCE 1.1 variant UUID is a 128 bit number defined out of 7 fields, each
-field a multiple of an octet in size and stored in network byte order:
+According to the DCE 1.1, ISO/IEC 11578:1996 and IETF RFC-4122
+standards, a DCE 1.1 variant UUID is a 128 bit number defined out of 7
+fields, each field a multiple of an octet in size and stored in network
+byte order:
[4]
version
@@ -109,12 +110,12 @@
=head2 UUID ASCII String Representation
-According to the DCE 1.1, ISO/IEC 11578:1996 and RFC 4122 standards,
-a DCE 1.1 variant UUID is represented as an ASCII string consisting
-of 8 hexadecimal digits followed by a hyphen, then three groups of
-4 hexadecimal digits each followed by a hyphen, then 12 hexadecimal
-digits. Formally, the string representation is defined by the following
-grammar:
+According to the DCE 1.1, ISO/IEC 11578:1996 and IETF RFC-4122
+standards, a DCE 1.1 variant UUID is represented as an ASCII string
+consisting of 8 hexadecimal digits followed by a hyphen, then three
+groups of 4 hexadecimal digits each followed by a hyphen, then 12
+hexadecimal digits. Formally, the string representation is defined by
+the following grammar:
uuid = <time_low> "-"
<time_mid> "-"
@@ -464,7 +465,7 @@
B<A Universally Unique IDentifier (UUID) URN Namespace>,
P. Leach, M. Mealling, R. Salz,
-IETF RFC 4122,
+IETF RFC-4122,
July 2005, 32 pages,
http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc4122.txt
@@ -500,7 +501,7 @@
B<HTTP Extensions for Distributed Authoring (WebDAV)>,
section B<6.4.1 Node Field Generation Without the IEEE 802 Address>,
-IETF Request for Comments: RFC 2518,
+IETF RFC-2518,
February 1999, 94 pages,
http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc2518.txt
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