On Jul 11, 2011, at 12:01 PM, Ed Leafe wrote: > On Jul 11, 2011, at 2:04 PM, Eric Day wrote: > >>> How is >>> >>> nova-<account>-<instance uuid> >>> >>> any different than: >>> >>> AAAABBBB-CCCC-DDDD-EEEE-FFFFGGGGHHHH >>> >>> Where AAAA/BBBB/CCCC (or some subset of them) are reserved/regulated? >> >> Nothing, if DDDD-EEEE-FFFFGGGGHHHH is a full UUID. If we compare to >> swift, the account prefix is a UUID too. The account prefix could be >> fixed for a session or passed in to every request depending on how >> things are decided. > > <sigh> > > It's a shame that the ipv6 proposal was never more fully considered. > That would handle the uniqueness, with the added benefit of providing simple > zone routing via DNS, with the exact same 128-bit/32 char size.
I don't I remember that proposal, but that's such a neat idea. Was anything discussed at all in Santa Clara regarding encoding zone information in the instance identifier? I apparently missed the instance identifier discussion somehow. - Chris This email may include confidential information. If you received it in error, please delete it. _______________________________________________ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~openstack Post to : openstack@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~openstack More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
