Hi all, I would like to kick off discussion of KIP-516, an implementation of topic IDs for Kafka. Topic IDs aim to solve topic uniqueness problems in Kafka, where referring to a topic by name alone is insufficient. Such cases include when a topic has been deleted and recreated with the same name.
Unique identifiers will help simplify and improve Kafka's topic deletion process, as well as prevent cases where brokers may incorrectly interact with stale versions of topics. https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/KAFKA/KIP-516%3A+Topic+Identifiers Looking forward to your thoughts. Lucas
