Re: [emergency] EDXL 2-May-2005: Distribution element : IDs

[Renato Iannella <renato@nicta.com.au>]

On 17 May 2005, at 22:51, Art Botterell wrote:

> Again, the challenge is to ensure uniqueness while maximizing a) 
> compatibility with users' internal schemes and b) meaningfulness on 
> human inspection.  While we certainly could use UUIDs in either or 
> both these elements (<senderId> and <messageReference>), implementers 
> would then need to deploy some sort of additional lookup mechanism to 
> recover their meanings.  Guess I'm not understanding how UUIDs would 
> be better.

I am saying that both should be defined as URIs (this meets challenges 
A and B).

Cheers...

Dr Renato Iannella
Project Leader, NICTA, Brisbane, QLD, AUSTRALIA
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