[glue-wg] More comments on the draft spec.

[Maarten.Litmaath at cern.ch]

Hi Paul,

> It's reasonable to require information providers to provide consistent 
> UniqueIDs for (choosing a duration out of the thin air) an hour.  Supporting 
> constant UniqueIDs for longer periods would be better, with the expectation 
> being that (for a production system) LocalIDs remain constant for many (many) 
> days.
> 
> (Stating the same idea, but without choosing a random number: an object's 
> UniqueID value should remain constant for a period far greater than the 
> latency of the underlying information system under normal operating 
> conditions.)

The requirement is much stronger for some of the UniqueID values.
For example, a site's CE/SE UniqueID values may be used in CS2SS/SS2CS
records published by different sites, so the one site should not change
its CE/SE UniqueID values on a whim...