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["Rivera, Rafael" <rafael@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

 Maybe I missed something, but these IDs are globally unique. Why are we
hashing again?

/rafael

On 8/12/2010 8:39 PM, Eric Schultz wrote:
>
>     I don't think we should call this a GUID if you're not using the
>     official definition of a GUID/UUID from RFC 4122.  If I see GUID
>     in documentation, I'm going to assume I can call a normal GUID
>     creation function to create one.
>
>
> I think you bring up a good point Trevor. I'm a bit of a stickler on
> the wording myself. The main reason we used the word GUID is that MSI
> has a column format for GUIDs. Maybe we could use a different word or
> phrase like 'hashed GUID' or 'HUID'? It would imply it looks and acts
> like a GUID but it can't be created using GUID functions.
>