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Re: UUID/GUID

From: Chris Snyder <chris AT psydeshow.org>
To: discussion of the Creative Commons Metadata work <cc-metadata AT lists.ibiblio.org>
Subject: Re: UUID/GUID
Date: Fri, 19 Mar 2004 19:09:22 -0500

Alexander Genaud wrote:

As per the 'semantic web', I've often wondered if hypertext
documents wouldn't be better identified and addressed using a
universally unique ID (UUID/GUID) rather than an URL.

One could make the TinyURL of the canonical resource the UID for all representations of that resource netwide.
http://tinyurl.com/

Pretty sure this is the same concept as URN, the uniform resource name.

chris.

Oops, Evan Prodromou, 03/19/2004
- UUID/GUID, Alexander Genaud, 03/19/2004
  - Re: UUID/GUID, Chris Snyder, 03/19/2004
    - URN, Alexander Genaud, 03/19/2004
  - Re: UUID/GUID, Mike Linksvayer, 03/21/2004