[uf-discuss] VIA or VIA SELF to indicate authoritative hCard[was: UID URL to indicate (relatively) more authoritativehCard(Was: Vote on this: rel="me self" to indicate anauthoritative hCard)]

[Colin Barrett]

On Feb 9, 2007, at 3:49 PM, Ryan King wrote:

> Secondly, UID is supposed to be a "globally unique identifier", so  
> something like a student id wouldn't qualify.

If you're aiming for a globally unique identifier, why not just create  
a UUID[1], I say sarcastically.

-Colin

[1] http://www.famkruithof.net/uuid/uuidgen