Brent Vukmer <bvukmer at blackboard.com> wrote:
> 
> Goran --
> 
> Instead of generating a UUIDon the fly for each package, why not
> generate 100,000 UUIDs, cache 'em, and then dole them out per package?

Well, I could do that. But then I could also do something much simpler
like give each "client map" an exclusive id range that can be used on
that machine etc.

But it's all about creating unique ids in a decentralized fashion. And
that is what UUID is meant for.

regards, Göran