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authorBryan Newbold <bnewbold@robocracy.org>2018-04-12 18:13:10 -0700
committerBryan Newbold <bnewbold@robocracy.org>2018-04-12 18:13:10 -0700
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update rfc with UUID notes
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@@ -99,14 +99,16 @@ behavior and schema layouts. These would all be semantic entities like "work",
fatcat identifiers would be semanticly meaningless fixed length random numbers,
usually represented in case-insensitive base32 format. Each entity type would
-have it's own identifier namespace. Eg, 96 bit identifiers would have 26
+have it's own identifier namespace. Eg, 96 bit identifiers would have 20
characters and look like:
fcwork_rzga5b9cd7efgh04iljk
+ https://fatcat.org/work/rzga5b9cd7efgh04iljk
-As a URL:
+128-bit (UUID size) would have 26 characters:
- https://fatcat.org/work/rzga5b9cd7efgh04iljk
+ fcwork_rzga5b9cd7efgh04iljk8f3jvz
+ https://fatcat.org/work/rzga5b9cd7efgh04iljk8f3jvz
A 64 bit namespace is probably plenty though, and would work with most databse
Integer columns: