If it was your intention to make me feel like the last idiot not knowing
"globally uniqueness" is the same as "statistically globally
uniqueness", then you failed. If you intended to get me off this list,
then - I admit - you succeeded. Who am I to comment on the ideas of
those, who know it all?
Keep this kind of arrogance. It will help you a lot to find supporters
and early implementors for your fine draft.
Neil.Young (as individual) has left the building.
Eric Rescorla schrieb:
On Thu, Feb 25, 2010 at 11:00 AM, neil.young <[email protected]> wrote:
Is there any paper describing the procedures/principles of node_id
generation anywhere?
No, it's just common knowledge that the chance that two random 128-bit numbers
will be the same is negligible.
One should add the term "statistically" to the globally
unique claim, in order to prevent confusions.
I don't actually agree with this. Any method of generating unique values
has some nonzero chance of producing duplicates. For instance, if you're
using a counter, your memory might be reset to zero by ionizing
radiation.
-Ekr
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