Re: [apps-discuss] Device URNs

Peter Saint-Andre <stpeter@stpeter.im> Thu, 23 February 2012 18:32 UTC

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Cc: Cullen Jennings <fluffy@cisco.com>, General discussion of application-layer protocols <apps-discuss@ietf.org>
Subject: Re: [apps-discuss] Device URNs
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On 2/23/12 11:30 AM, Peter Saint-Andre wrote:
> 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)? 

RFC 4122, that is:

http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc4122

Peter

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