I do have an identical twin brother, and hashing the DNA sequence collides more regularly than either random or MAC-based interface-identifiers in IPv6.
Also, he doesn't have the same opinions. Greg Daley From: ietf-boun...@ietf.org [mailto:ietf-boun...@ietf.org] On Behalf Of Phillip Hallam-Baker Sent: Tuesday, 17 September 2013 11:33 AM To: John Levine Cc: IETF Discussion Mailing List Subject: Re: ORCID - unique identifiers for bibliographers On Mon, Sep 16, 2013 at 3:45 PM, John Levine <jo...@taugh.com<mailto:jo...@taugh.com>> wrote: -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 >Since this has turned out to be ambiguous, I have decided to instead use a >SHA-256 hash of my DNA sequence: > >9f00a4-9d1379-002a03-007184-905f6f-796534-06f9da-304b11-0f88d7-92192e-98b2 How does your identical twin brother feel about this? His opinion is identical to my own. -- Website: http://hallambaker.com/