Re: [Openstack] Standardizing resource IDs on UUID?

2011-05-28 Thread Brian Schott
I was just re-reading RFC4122 on UUIDs and the different variants: http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc4122.html and what Python gives you in the UUID class: http://docs.python.org/library/uuid.html We need to decide which variant is right for us. With the namespace variant uuid5(), it is possi

Re: [Openstack] Standardizing resource IDs on UUID?

2011-05-27 Thread Jay Pipes
I think Erik's looking for a timeframe for this, too. We could implement this tomorrow in Glance, but there's been a conscience decision to use URIs as an image's globally-unique identifier, and to allow Glance registries to implement whatever image ID they wanted. This can, of course, change, but

Re: [Openstack] Standardizing resource IDs on UUID?

2011-05-27 Thread Vishvananda Ishaya
+1 We have blueprints for migrating nova but it will take some time. On May 27, 2011, at 1:02 PM, Mark Washenberger wrote: > +1 for UUIDs. > > If we agree on this approach, there is some difficulty incorporating it into > nova as Ed has identified. However, any other projects, especially those

Re: [Openstack] Standardizing resource IDs on UUID?

2011-05-27 Thread Mark Washenberger
+1 for UUIDs. If we agree on this approach, there is some difficulty incorporating it into nova as Ed has identified. However, any other projects, especially those hoping to be adopted as Openstack projects by the PPB, can probably switch to this approach more immediately. Just a thought. "Ed

Re: [Openstack] Standardizing resource IDs on UUID?

2011-05-27 Thread Ed Leafe
On May 27, 2011, at 1:15 PM, Erik Carlin wrote: > With the proliferation of new openstack services being built, is there any > reason not to use UUID as the standard resource ID format? The consensus at the last summit was to move to UUIDs for instance IDs. The biggest concerns were tha

[Openstack] Standardizing resource IDs on UUID?

2011-05-27 Thread Erik Carlin
With the proliferation of new openstack services being built, is there any reason not to use UUID as the standard resource ID format? Erik Confidentiality Notice: This e-mail message (including any attached or embedded documents) is intended for the exclusive and confidential use of the individ