[Cosmo-dev] cosmo 0.6.1 EIMML changes

[Phillip J. Eby]

At 11:12 AM 3/1/2007 -0800, Jeffrey Harris wrote:
>Here's how to get different UUIDs for the same modification:
>
>1. Alf and Barbie share a weekly event with no modifications
>2. Alf changes the second occurrence's title.  There's nothing that
>constrains the modification item's UUID, it's randomly generated
>3. Simultaneously, Barbie changes the second occurrence's location.
>Again, the modification she edits has a randomly generated UUID
>
>When these get shared, we want the two modifications to merge.  Using
>their arbitrary UUIDs would make that hard.

Could we use "namespace UUIDs" for this?  A namespace UUID is generated 
from a base UUID and an arbitrary string.

I know we talked about this before, but I don't think we got to a 
conclusive yes or no on this idea.