n Title: INFORMATION
TECHNOLOGY – OPEN
SYSTEMS INTERCONNECTION –
PROCEDURES FOR THE OPERATION
OF OSI REGISTRATION AUTHORITIES: GENERATION AND REGISTRATION OF UNIVERSALLY
UNIQUE IDENTIFIERS (UUIDS)
nThis is an important new Recommendation, for approval at the March 2004 meeting of SG17.
nThe history of UUID (GUID) work is worth several slides on its own!
nIt involves Microsoft, IETF Draft RFCs and the
Open Group.