cg at cdegroot.com (Cees de Groot) writes:

> Well, IMNSHO the UUID stuff that's currently in the image is
> broken. UUID's shouldn't be big random numbers, they should be *provable*
> universable unique. At the moment, the only *provable* universable
> unique scheme that is standardized is to have the machine's IP address,
> the process id, the current time and a sequence number in it.

Here's a description of how a UUID should be constructed:

http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9629399/apdxa.htm

Chris.
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