RE: Globally unique e-tags, if-match on content-ID, etc.

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>Many of the characteristics desired for URNs can be achieved by 
>embedding a globally unique ID into each document. This could be
>simply a Microsoft GUID and I'm told there is already a de-facto
>GUID scheme. 

Note for the pedants:  Actually, these are DCE GUIDs (Microsoft
re-implemented much (all?) of the low-level constructs of DCE).  Nice to
see that some of this code escaped...

[... much good stuff elided ...]
Interesting proposal.
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Mark Leighton Fisher          Thomson Consumer Electronics
fisherm@indy.tce.com          Indianapolis, IN
"Browser Torture Specialist, First Class"

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