UUID Last modified: Wednesday, April 26, 2006
Short for Universally Unique IDentifier, UUID is a 128-bit value used for identification used in software construction. UUID is the same as GUID (Microsoft) and is part of the Distributed Computing Environment (DCE), standardized by the Open Software Foundation (OSF). UUIDs are intended to have a high likelihood of uniqueness over space and time and are computationally difficult to guess. Also known as GUID.
•E-mail this definition to a colleague• For internet.com pages about UUID . Also check out the following links! RFC 4122 A UUID URN Namespace  This specification defines a Uniform Resource Name namespace for UUIDs (Universally Unique IDentifier), also known as GUIDs (Globally Unique IDentifier). A UUID is 128 bits long, and requires no central registration process. The Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF)  Home page of the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF), the protocol engineering and development arm of the Internet. Their page offers information about the organization, as well as links to working groups, topics, mailing lists, meetings, and proceedings. OSSP UUID UUIDs are intended as unique identifiers for both mass tagging objects with an extremely short lifetime and to reliably identifying very persistent objects across a network.	Distributed Computing Programming DCE GUID Microsoft OSF program software Give Us Your Feedback Shopping ubID Products Compare Products,Prices and Stores Shop by Category: Clothing 353 Store Offers Tools and Accessories 18 Store Offers Jewelry 255 Store Offers Garden 97 Store Offers Luggage 1 Store Offers