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Universally Unique Lexicographically Sortable Identifier
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README Fix: Remove point about MAC address issue #93

Closed broofa closed 2 years ago

broofa commented 2 years ago

The claim that UUIDs require access to the MAC address should be removed, as it's not technically correct. RFC4122 allows for the node field to be set to a random value if a MAC address isn't available. Ref: https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc4122#section-4.1.6

FWIW, the uuid module has always used a random value for the node field and never had any complaints. In fact, this ultimately turned out to be a good thing, as embedding MAC addresses in IDs that might be shared publicly has come to be seen as something of a security concern. I guess if you're looking for reasons to take down UUID you could list that instead? But where uuid is concerned it's not an issue.

broofa commented 2 years ago

Well... if you ever want to resurrect this, you know where to find it.

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