Re: Unique handle generation

[Bill Manning <bmanning@isi.edu>]

% > % So your personal handle is part of a globally unique space that all
% > % registries have to coordinate to ensure uniqueness, right?
% > % 
% > % -MM
% > 
% > 	Unfortunately, yes.
% > 	Just like the registry handles have be be globally unique.
% > 	(It would be confusing to have two registries with the same
% > 	handle... :)
% > 	One must have globally unique space within each object type.
% 
% So, you have three methods that I'm aware of to do this:
% 
% 1) all of the registries have to cooperate to make sure they are
%    creating unique handles 
% 
% 2) some other entity has to give out unique object handles.
% 
% 3) come up with a scheme that can be self assigned but still
%    gaurantees uniqueness (some hash function, uuid being just one)

	Yup... Thats pretty much my take as well. 
	#1 has not worked well
	#2 is ... operationally challenging ... :)
	#3 might be the most fun to work on.

% I think the point that others are attempting to get to by
% suggesting that an object's name is its registry handle 
% plus its handle is to avoid these methods.  It would be nice of 
% folks said why they find these methods objectionable..

	See reply to George, already in flight.
	If a handle has independent meaning, we ought to be 
	able to talk about it w/o refering to its other associations.

% 
% -MM
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