--On Friday, May 30, 2003 15:26 -0700 Bob Hinden <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
I don't follow this. It seems to me that there are two points on the allocation spectrum that are useful. At one end there is a central registry for organizations that are willing to pay something and want some higher assurance of uniqueness (and a way to reconcile disputes). At the other end is local generation of pseudo-random identifiers. If people want to set up web sites that generate the pseudo-random numbers for this purpose, that is fine too. I don't see any need for something in between the two approaches. The value of a registry is to have a higher guarantee of uniqueness. Other than that they should be generated locally.
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