Universal time to within 100 ns, IEEE 802 network address, and a random
number.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Steve Harris" <S.W.Harris@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <gmpi@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Wednesday, February 09, 2005 5:52 PM
Subject: [gmpi] Re: low level API - Abstract Factory summary
On Wed, Feb 09, 2005 at 12:06:16 -0800, Tim Hockin wrote:On Wed, Feb 09, 2005 at 09:09:02AM -0500, Ron Kuper wrote:
> Because only GUIDs are guaranteed to be globally unique across space > and
> time. Company names change, products get versioned but use the same
> name, etc. At some level there needs to be a fudgeproof unique ID.
What guarantees a GUID is unique?
Probability and a decent random number generator.
- Steve
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