On 7/22/07, Steve Jones <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Databases would be an equivalent (but not true GUID), Table + Primary > Key. But "true" GUID systems tend to be (IMO) pretty dreadful and > inhouse solutions where every object as a GUID and this is then fired > around and used as a reference point (often via some horrific central > server were you pass the GUID and it returns the object.
Your mention of of a central server suggests that identifiers, while assignable in a decentralized fashion (via GUIDs and their low probability of collision), couldn't be dereferenced (turned into data) in the same way. The Web absolutely nailed that by defining a default mapping between URI schemes and application protocols. Mark. -- Mark Baker. Ottawa, Ontario, CANADA. http://www.markbaker.ca Coactus; Web-inspired integration strategies http://www.coactus.com
