[Gzz] UUID (=GUID) URNs Internet-draft

[Alatalo Toni]

Greetings,

Tuomas asked me (on irc) to mention this here (too, committed earlier to
storm-article SCRATCH where we have listed potential references before),

there's an Internet-draft about UUID (=GUID) URNs, a recent revision:
http://www.ietf.org/internet-drafts/draft-mealling-uuid-urn-00.txt

was wondering about the note in the current (relative long-lived now :)
beginning paragraph of the article, trying to find out what Berners-Lee
has said about these unique random identifiers more recently. didn't find
good references to exactly that, but that draft instead. figured you (e.g.
Benja) would've already known about this, but couldn't find it mentioned
anywhere and Tuomas said that that work is not familiar from before.

interestingly enough, though probably quite unrelated to anything here,
the draft is written by folks at e.g. VeriSign&Microsoft and UUIDs were
secretly included in beta builds of WinXP to track leakages, see
http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/4/21307.html if interested :)

this is the current beginning of the article that I mentioned above:

---cut-from:manuscripts/storm/article.rst---
The Web and many other hypermedia systems assume that identifiers
either have to include location information (as in URLs, which break
when documents are moved), or can only be resolved locally (as in
link services that can only find links stored on a select set
of link servers [ref Microcosm, DLS, ...]). Berners-Lee [ref NameMyth -
that was '96, what does he say now?] argues that
unique random identifiers are not globally feasible for this reason.
---end---

~Toni