Re: [VCARDDAV] KIND:device

[Simon Perreault <[e-mail]>]

On 01/11/2012 01:38 PM, Joe Marcus Clarke wrote:
> On 1/11/12 9:51 AM, Simon Perreault wrote:
>> On 01/09/2012 12:14 PM, Joe Marcus Clarke wrote:
>>> We did add UID as a holder for serial number.
>>
>> I'd be careful with that idea. What tells a vCard consumer that the UID
>> property also happens to contain a serial number? Seems like pointless
>> overloading to me. Better just create a new serial number property. It's
>> free, you know... ;)
>
> I do.  I was arguing that a "unique identifier" for a device would
> likely be a serial number since that is burned into the device.  Gonzalo
> and I were debating this further and I'm coming around to provisioning a
> serial number property vs. overloading UID.  But since UID can hold a
> text value like this, it would be legal to do a serial number here, right?

I'm not sure you understood my point.

Yes it would be *legal* for the UID property to hold a serial number.

The problem I'm thinking of would arise if, in *any* circumstance, you 
try to *interpret* the UID property as a serial number, or you try to 
*extract* a serial number from it. If you don't want to do that, fine, 
but then I'd still be curious as to why a randomly-generated UUID 
wouldn't be easier.

Simon
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