Re: Globally unique subjectUID?

[Hal Lockhart <hal@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

At 10:15 AM 6/5/97 -0600, Bob Jueneman wrote:

>If the subjectUID were a constant, unique and unambiguous reference to the
>PERSON, there might be a lot of advantages. But this would require that it
>the subjectUID not be unique per issuer, but globally unique.

Without commenting on the desirablity of this, there is already a perfectly
good mechanism defined for creating unique identifiers defined in:

ftp://ds.internic.net/internet-drafts/draft-leach-uuids-guids-00.txt

Hal
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