On 20 Feb 2017, at 16:12, Steve Kille <[email protected]> wrote: >> Clients are going to need to use a consistent approach to globally unique >> naming. If they’re not unique then you’ll get collisions and all the >> benefits are >> lost. (And if they’re not consistent then they’ll be fingerprintable, which >> seems like a sensible thing to avoid while we’ve got the chance). > > [Steve Kille] > > Could this be usefully achieved with something more compact than a UUID4? > The idea seems right, but UUID4s are very long
Yes, there was a discussion in xsf@ about this earlier, but anything that has the same properties as UUID4 has would work, and if it’s shorter, yay. /K _______________________________________________ Standards mailing list Info: https://mail.jabber.org/mailman/listinfo/standards Unsubscribe: [email protected] _______________________________________________
