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Subject: Re: [regrep] Issue with UUID's for Core Components and BIE's
David RR Webber wrote: >I hope this is the last and final time we have to have this discussion >around erroneous use of UUID values as external linkage identifiers >to registry content - they are for INTERNAL use only - and should >be used for such programmatic pointer uses only within the API >to registry. > I respectfully disagree. The UUID based URN (urn:uuid:....) should be used to uniquely reference an object internally or externally. I agree that for human consumption you may want some ExternalIdentifier such as a human friendly URN. But strictly for reference purposes (internal or external to registry) I still suggest using UUID based URNs. >I understand the tempatation to make your Java code >easier to write by burying all these UUIDs into the access method >to the registry - as a quick kludge - but you have to remember the >central tenet of computer software - its supposed to make work >easier for human operators - not harder! Not to mention the >ludicrous overhead associated with a 128 byte boat anchor to >what is often less than 30 bytes of information.... > > Oops, I think you meant to say a "16 byte boat anchor" not a "128 byte boat anchor". Which is definitely less than "30 bytes of information". To be clear... A UUID is 16 bytes not 128 bytes. -- Regards, Farrukh
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