[clug] Unique Id's and CD's

Karun Dambiec karun at fastmail.fm
Thu May 7 11:29:50 GMT 2009



On Thu, 07 May 2009 14:12 +1000, "Robert Edwards" <bob at cs.anu.edu.au>
wrote:

> > --
> > Andrew Janke
> > (a.janke at gmail.com || http://a.janke.googlepages.com/)
> > Canberra->Australia    +61 (402) 700 883
> 
> Of course, none of these solutions guarantee a "unique" id.
> Depends upon how "unique" you want your ID to be... (ie. in
> what domain the uniqueness needs to hold).
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> Bob Edwards.
> -- 

An option is to generate a Universally Unique Identifier,(UUID) or GUID
following RFC 4122, or some implementation there of, and burn this to a
copy of the CD.


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