[Zope3-dev] Heads up: zope.app.intid and zope.app.keyreference are now op

[Benji York]

jim at zope.com wrote:
> You know probably Leach & Mealling's discussion of possible 
> solutions:
> 
> http://www.ietf.org/internet-drafts/draft-mealling-uuid-urn-05.txt
> 
> We are using GUIDs with combined IP address, timestamp, and random
> numbers

Uwe Oestermeier wrote:
>>They aren't guaranteed to be unique.  They are statistically
>>very unlikely to conflict, but that chance of a conflict makes
>>me nervous.

I'm a bit confused by this conversation.  GUIDs (globally-unique 
identifiers) aren't neccesary for integer IDs.  We just need 
locally-unique identifiers, which are much easier to generate.
-- 
Benji York
Sr. Software Engineer
Zope Corporation