Fredrik Lundh effbot at telia.com
Fri Mar 31 16:33:59 EST 2000

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Steve Holden <sholden at bellatlantic.net> wrote
> I suspect that what was being suggested here was the use of the Ethernet
> address in the creation of GUIs (globally-unique identifiers).  For such
> an identifier to be globally unique it requires two components.

you mean GUID, I hope (or UUID, depending on
you who you ask)

> One is a portion specific to the locale in which it is created, which
> is what guarantees the global uniqueness.  An Ethernet identifier would
> do quite nicely for this purpose.

only if you don't really care about privacy issues,
of course...

</F>

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