Ned Konz wrote:
> All packages will have a globally unique id (generated from the
> current millisecond time plus a random number plus the authors initials)
> so they can be uniquely identitfied.  ...

There are better solutions for globally unique id's. They should be 
unique in time and space and there is already a solution for this:
GUID's used in Win32 systems. The algorithm takes the MAC address of the 
network card, the time and a random number to build a 128-bit value. 
That's not a windows only solution: they are defined in Open Group's DCE 
standard.

Have alook at:	
http://www.searchlores.org/fiatlu/GUIDnumber.html

Torsten