Lucas, this would be great. I've run into issues with topics being resurrected accidentally, since a client cannot easily distinguish between a deleted topic and a new topic with the same name. I'd need the ID accessible from the client to solve that issue, but this is a good first step.
Ryanne On Wed, Sep 4, 2019 at 1:41 PM Lucas Bradstreet <lu...@confluent.io> wrote: > Hi all, > > I would like to kick off discussion of KIP-516, an implementation of topic > IDs for Kafka. Topic IDs aim to solve topic uniqueness problems in Kafka, > where referring to a topic by name alone is insufficient. Such cases > include when a topic has been deleted and recreated with the same name. > > Unique identifiers will help simplify and improve Kafka's topic deletion > process, as well as prevent cases where brokers may incorrectly interact > with stale versions of topics. > > > https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/KAFKA/KIP-516%3A+Topic+Identifiers > > Looking forward to your thoughts. > > Lucas >
