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Subject: RE: [ubl-dev] UUID
This is a very useful link for UUIDs (even has a generator) http://www.itu.int/ITU-T/asn1/uuid.html Quoting "David RR Webber (XML)" <david@drrw.info>: > Chin, > > I don't think this is the best list to post these type of Q's vis > message handling. > > All the Qs you ask about delivery, redelivery dsigs, etc are already > taken care of in the ebXML messaging specification and you just need to > do delivery via a conformant ebMS to take care of all that. > > Vis the UUID algorithm - this was originally developed by Microsoft I > beleive for use in Windows registry - and subsequently published. You > can get open source that implements it. The UUID mechanism is also > used in ebXML Registry - so that contains existing functions that > compute those for you. > > DW > > > -------- Original Message -------- > Subject: Re: [ubl-dev] UUID > From: Chin Chee-Kai <cheekai@SoftML.Net> > Date: Sat, September 02, 2006 1:25 am > To: UBL-Dev <ubl-dev@lists.oasis-open.org> > > I suppose "universally" has to exclude e-commerce to Pluto from now > on... > > Anyway, the UUID follows a specific algorithm to ensure that IDs > generated by > this same algorithm are all unique anywhere in the world and across > time, > with only extremely small and insignificant chances of collision (2 or > more > generated IDs are the same). > > So values stuffed into this field need to follow that algorithm in order > to > achieve > uniqueness universally (within Earth). > > In the original poster's question, he's right to say different > transmissions of > the same business instance would use different UUID and same business > ID. > That's theoretically though. There may be practical difficulties in > trying to > replace different values of UUID into the instance prior to > transmission, and > retain the overall integrity of the digitally-signed instance if digital > > signature > is used. Need to look a bit more into this aspect I think. > > Best Regards, > Chin Chee-Kai > > At 10:50 AM 2006-09-02 +0800, Tim McGrath wrote: >> I would say that it means parties exchanging these documents can be >> assured they will never see a duplicate value for this identifier in any >> other document instance. in other words 'universally' means within their >> universe of discourse. >> >> This includes other galaxies :-) >> >> >> G. Ken Holman wrote: >> >>> >>> Does anyone have insight on the scope of "universally" in the UBL >>> definition? >>> >>> . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Ken >>> >> >> -- >> regards >> tim mcgrath >> phone: +618 93352228 >> postal: po box 1289 fremantle western australia 6160 >> web: http://www.portcomm.com.au/tmcgrath >> >> >> --------------------------------------------------------------------- >> To unsubscribe, e-mail: ubl-dev-unsubscribe@lists.oasis-open.org >> For additional commands, e-mail: ubl-dev-help@lists.oasis-open.org > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: ubl-dev-unsubscribe@lists.oasis-open.org > For additional commands, e-mail: ubl-dev-help@lists.oasis-open.org > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: ubl-dev-unsubscribe@lists.oasis-open.org > For additional commands, e-mail: ubl-dev-help@lists.oasis-open.org > >
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