[Q]:Generate Unique ID's

[Andrew Dalke]

Steven Taschuk:
> When you say "no exceptions", do you mean "some very small number
> of exceptions, close enough to zero for all practical purposes"?

Yes.  And no.  See
http://ftp.ics.uci.edu/pub/ietf/webdav/uuid-guid/draft-leach-uuids-guids-01.
txt

 ] A
 ] UUID is 128 bits long, and if generated according to the one of the
 ] mechanisms in this document, is either guaranteed to be different
 ] from all other UUIDs/GUIDs generated until 3400 A.D. or extremely
 ] likely to be different (depending on the mechanism chosen).


or the section on UUIDs in
http://www.ietf.org/internet-drafts/draft-ietf-webdav-rfc2518bis-03.txt

                        Andrew
                        dalke at dalkescientific.com