Index: ossp-web/new/news.txt RCS File: /v/ossp/cvs/ossp-web/new/news.txt,v rcsdiff -q -kk '-r1.67' '-r1.68' -u '/v/ossp/cvs/ossp-web/new/news.txt,v' 2>/dev/null --- news.txt 2003/11/10 19:04:51 1.67 +++ news.txt 2004/01/11 08:43:50 1.68 @@ -1,3 +1,4 @@ +11-Jan-2004: Released L 0.9.0 10-Nov-2003: Released L 1.1.0 10-Nov-2003: Released L 0.9.1 10-Nov-2003: Released L 0.9.5 Index: ossp-web/pkg/lib/uuid/index.wml RCS File: /v/ossp/cvs/ossp-web/pkg/lib/uuid/index.wml,v rcsdiff -q -kk '-r1.1' '-r1.2' -u '/v/ossp/cvs/ossp-web/pkg/lib/uuid/index.wml,v' 2>/dev/null --- index.wml 2004/01/10 22:32:31 1.1 +++ index.wml 2004/01/11 08:43:51 1.2 @@ -5,8 +5,6 @@

Universally Unique Identifiers

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Abstract

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). +

+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. +

Documentation

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