Identifiers

The Problem


To provide equality, we need to identify objects
We need to generate Globally Unique Ids
For scalability, the id must be generated at creation, locally
hostname,process_id,address,counter
What if the machine does not have a domain name?
ipv6_address,process_id,address,counter
What if the address is reused?
Probably some kind of DNS of objects will be needed

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