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Subject: RE: Microsoft's UUIDs
From: M****** R****** (m***swirl.com)
Date: Thu Oct 12 2000 - 13:33:09 CDT

That is most helpful. "_c word" == _cannot_ ;), which I thought a strong
word to use without any supporting material. I am suprised this was allowed
to expire.

--m

> I don't know what you mean by "_c", but UUID's are now probably done
> using random identifiers. Paul Leach of Microsoft and I wrote an IETF
> internet-draft describing the UUID formats and various ways of
> generating them, including IEE802 address and random-number. Ted T'so
> was an early implementor and helped significantly. You can get the
> expired draft from my web pages:
> http://www.shore.net/~rsalz/uuid-i-d.txt .
>
> The draft was allowed to expire because of "change control" issues
> between OSF (now The Open Group), the IETF, questions as to whether it
> was really necessary, etc ...
>
> /r$