> On 2 Dec 2016, at 16:39, Kevin Smith <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> They’re long and (as far as I can see at the moment) unnecessary when a 
> simple per-stanza counter would suffice - only uniqueness within a stanza is 
> needed, not globally, isn’t it?

As far as I know, technically an XML ID value needs to be unique in the whole 
document, and for the XMPP case the document is the XMPP stream/session. Using 
UUIDs would avoid having to go over and reassign IDs when attaching one message 
to another, etc.

Cheers,
Tobi 
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