ossp-pkg/uuid/uuid_cli.pod 1.19 -> 1.20
--- uuid_cli.pod 2005/01/23 11:28:51 1.19
+++ uuid_cli.pod 2005/08/30 20:34:35 1.20
@@ -58,10 +58,10 @@
B<OSSP uuid> is a ISO-C and Perl application programming interface (API)
and corresponding command line interface (CLI) for the generation of DCE
-1.1 and ISO/IEC 11578:1996 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).
+1.1 and ISO/IEC 11578:1996 and 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).
UUIDs are 128 bit numbers which are intended to have a high likelihood
of uniqueness over space and time and are computationally difficult
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