base64 encoding

[John Messing <jmessing@law-on-line.com>]

At the f2f in New Orleans, a comment was made that we would not refer to
base64 encoding in Blue because of the emergence of another mime
encoding type. The DSS TC exclusively uses base64 encoding and has
requested of the CF TC a reference to the newer encoding standard so
that it may consider changing as well. I have made some informal
requests of individual members, but without much luck. Is there anyone
who can provide the requested reference? Thanks.

> -------- Original Message --------
> Subject: RE: [legalxml-courtfiling] Globally unique identifiers -
> approach
> From: "Cabral, James E." <JCabral@mtgmc.com>
> Date: Wed, May 11, 2005 5:53 pm
> To: "Cusick, James" <James.Cusick@wkglobal.com>,
> <legalxml-courtfiling@lists.oasis-open.org>
> Cc: "John Greacen" <john@greacen.net>
> 
> James,
>  
> That approach seems appropriate for identifying things that occur at a
> specific time, e.g. Filing Identifiers, but do we need a timestamp for
> things that do not change often (e.g. FilingAssembly or FilingReview
> ID)?  
>  
>   jim
> 
> ________________________________
> 
> From: Cusick, James [mailto:James.Cusick@wkglobal.com] 
> Sent: Wednesday, May 11, 2005 12:41 PM
> To: legalxml-courtfiling@lists.oasis-open.org
> Cc: John Greacen
> Subject: [legalxml-courtfiling] Globally unique identifiers - approach
> 
> 
> John and all,
>  
> At the New Orleans meeting I agreed to propose an approach to generating
> globally unique identifiers. After searching around on this topic I
> would like to recommend using UUIDs as per the IETF DRAFT RFC. This
> approach requires NO global coordination.
>  
> Please see:
> http://www.ietf.org/internet-drafts/draft-mealling-uuid-urn-05.txt
>  
>  
> This RFC is currently in draft status and is based on Unique ID
> generation technique used in Open Software Foundation's Distributed
> Computing Environment. The RFC guarantees that ID's generated using the
> recommended algorithms will be unique across space and time.
>  
> This RFC specifies 4 algorithms to generate universally unique ID's.
> The following subset is recommended for LegalXML standards:
>  
>   1. System timestamp up to a 100 nanoseconds
>  
>   2. MAC address of the machine where UUID is generated
>  
>   3. Use of Random or pseudo random numbers
>  
>  
> Finally, the RFC contains C code sample on how to generate UUID's based
> on the generation algorithms listed above.  
> 
> Please let me know what you think and how you would like to see this
> phrased within Blue.
>  
> Regards,
> james