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+1

We have blueprints for migrating nova but it will take some time.

On May 27, 2011, at 1:02 PM, Mark Washenberger wrote:

> +1 for UUIDs.
> 
> If we agree on this approach, there is some difficulty incorporating it into nova as Ed has identified. However, any other projects, especially those hoping to be adopted as Openstack projects by the PPB, can probably switch to this approach more immediately.
> 
> Just a thought.
> 
> "Ed Leafe" <ed at leafe.com> said:
> 
>> On May 27, 2011, at 1:15 PM, Erik Carlin wrote:
>> 
>>> With the proliferation of new openstack services being built, is there any reason
>>> not to use UUID as the standard resource ID format?
>> 
>> 	The consensus at the last summit was to move to UUIDs for instance IDs. The
>> biggest concerns were that a) it breaks the current API (which can be updated),
>> and it breaks the EC2 API (which can't be updated). I know that there were some
>> ideas for working around the ec2 issues, but I don't remember them.
>> 
>> 	I think moving ahead, UUIDs scale way better than locally-generated sequential
>> integers.
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> -- Ed Leafe
>> 
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