Tim Rowledge wrote:

>cg at cdegroot.com (Cees de Groot) is claimed by the authorities to have written:
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>>Random UUID's are just a cheap cop-out for when you cannot (or are too lazy to
>>find out or too shy to ask the user) get the IP address and/or the process ID.
>>They should work, because the chance of re-generating the same UUID twice is
>>small, but as you have experienced there is no guarantee.
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>Let's not forget that we do not always have access to IP (or any
>suitable ananlogue) nor to process ID (or any suitable analogue).
>A system that can survive the lack of one or other would be rather
>useful in those cases (think embedded, or no-OS etc).
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>tim
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My thinking exactly.

My "corollary" thought is: just why does SqueakMap even need a 
"Universally Unique ID", anyway?

Isn't "locally unique" (to the SqueakMap registration server) good enough?

Nevin