ossp-web/pkg/lib/uuid/index.wml 1.1 -> 1.2
--- index.wml 2004/01/10 22:32:31 1.1
+++ index.wml 2004/01/11 08:43:51 1.2
@@ -5,8 +5,6 @@
<h1>Universally Unique Identifiers</h1>
-<img src="socket.png" alt="" align=right>
-
<h2>Abstract</h2>
OSSP uuid is a ISO-C application programming interface (API) and
@@ -15,6 +13,15 @@
(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).
+<p>
+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.
+
<h2>Documentation</h2>
<pkg_manpage name="uuid" sect=3 path="/pkg/lib/uuid/uuid.pod">,
@@ -30,7 +37,7 @@
<pkg_status
name="uuid" assign="rse"
stable="none" stable_date="none"
- unstable="0.9.0" unstable_date="10-Jan-2004"
+ unstable="0.9.0" unstable_date="11-Jan-2004"
done=90>
<h2>Source</h2>
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