Won't an IPv6 address do that by it's very nature? -S
________________________________________ From: [email protected] [[email protected]] on behalf of Chris Behrens [[email protected]] Sent: Monday, July 11, 2011 4:24 PM To: Ed Leafe Cc: [email protected]; Chris Behrens Subject: Re: [Openstack] Cross-zone instance identifiers in EC2 API - Is it worth the effort? 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 : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~openstack More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp This email may include confidential information. If you received it in error, please delete it. _______________________________________________ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~openstack Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~openstack More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
