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UUID in WICG #1

Closed bcoe closed 3 years ago

bcoe commented 3 years ago

:wave: @broofa @ctavan.

After discussions with various folks, and the help of @domenic who's been helping guide me through the process, I've started drafting up a proposal for the Web Incubator Community Group.

I just pushed some initial rough work, which you can find in index.html, and at bcoe.github.io/uuid

First off, an apology

I hope you can forgive me that we stalled in the standardization process, it was a combination of:

  1. it becoming obvious that we were trying to standardize UUID at the wrong layer.
  2. my getting buried in a combination of work, and dealing poorly with the mess that 2020 has been (turns out being locked inside for 10 months isn't great for my anxiety).

Renewed interest/support for our work

@jasnell just landed a WebCrypto implementation in Node@15, this eliminates one of the concerns that had come up about standardizing UUID in w3c (the fact that Node did not have the same cryptography primitives as the browser).

@jasnell and I would both love to add UUID to Node.js, but I think there would be value in fleshing out an API surface that could potentially work both for Node.js and other platforms.

tldr; what do folks say we try to dust this work off, and go through the WICG process?

bcoe commented 3 years ago

We've been successfully moving forward with the incubator process.