Re: Globally unique subjectUID?

[Bob Jueneman <BJUENEMAN@xxxxxxxxxx>]

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>At 10:15 AM 6/5/97 -0600, Bob Jueneman wrote:
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>>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:
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>ftp://ds.internic.net/internet-drafts/draft-leach-uuids-guids-00.txt 

That approach, and others that might be dreamed up, can generate IDs that
are either guaranteed to be unique, or are extremely unlikely to be
nonunique.

What I was hoping to find was a way of creating a unique ID that was
verifiably one-to-one with the subject entity, and hence (presumably)
unique.  For such a purpose, the uniqueness would not have to be absolutely
infallible to still be quite useful.  In other words, the absolute
uniqueness was somewhat less important than a repeatable and confirmable
correlation with the subject.

Bob