[Dev] iCalendar UIDs
Andi Vajda
vajda at osafoundation.org
Tue Feb 1 11:05:56 PST 2005
> Trial balloon: I'm wondering how crucial it is that we use case
> insensitive UUIDs in the repository.
The UUIDs used by the repository try to conform to
http://hegel.ittc.ku.edu/topics/internet/internet-drafts/draft-l/draft-leach-uuids-guids-01.txt
They are a 128 bit number that can be represented as a string in several ways:
- the standard 36 character long way, using case insensitive hex chars
- a more compact one I added using base64, 22 characters long, case sensitive
The repository doesn't use case insensitive UUIDs, it uses 128 bit numbers
generated as UUIDs.
Andi..
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