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From: Michael Witten <mfwitten@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: What's in a name? Let's use a (uuid,name,email) triplet
Date: Thu, 18 Mar 2010 13:57:38 -0500
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On Thu, Mar 18, 2010 at 13:47, Matthieu Moy
<Matthieu.Moy@grenoble-inp.fr> wrote:
> What's the added value of the "SHA-1" thing, here? A hash of a pair
> (a, b) is exactly as unique as the pair itself (well, actually even a
> bit less if you consider collisions).

Your observation is correct, but I'm pushing for the SHA-1 string
because it could be efficiently parsed, stored, and used; it's
essentially an optimization (or a preparation for an optimization).

If that's not a good way to approach it, then I'd be satisifed with
just a straight (name,email) pair or any other reasonably unique
string.

On a more general note, the idea of a uuid is to distribute the
process of canonicalizing identities. Does that not make perfect
sense?