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[Ed Leafe <ed.leafe@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On May 24, 2011, at 10:43 AM, Sandy Walsh wrote:

> I'm not really sure of the value in letting users generate their own Reservation ID though. What would the typical motivation be?
> 
> That said, anyone else have preferences (PUT + user defined reservation ID's) vs. (POST + zone generated ID's)?

	Easy - user-generated reservation IDs would almost certainly result in duplicates. Imagine if 3rd parties using the API each set up a system that generated sequential integer reservation IDs...


-- Ed Leafe