Re: [apps-discuss] Device URNs

Peter Saint-Andre <stpeter@stpeter.im> Thu, 23 February 2012 18:30 UTC

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Subject: Re: [apps-discuss] Device URNs
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On 2/23/12 6:30 AM, Jari Arkko wrote:

> we know that the third variant,
> cryptographic identifiers, is not strictly speaking aligned with current
> requirements on what URNs must satisfy, as cryptographic identifiers
> have only statistical, not administered uniqueness.

Jari, in what respect is that different from UUIDs (RFC 4422)? Neither
has administered uniqueness, but folks on the urn@ietf.org list
convinced me last year that urn:uuid is perfectly acceptable; see the
thread starting here:

http://www.ietf.org/mail-archive/web/urn/current/msg01612.html

Peter

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