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Re:Universally Unique Lexicographically Sortable Identifier ... by foobarian on Tuesday December 06, 2016 @11:12PM (#13120411)
> But the whole point of an UUID is a random unique ID. Non guessable. Sortable is not a feature you normally want from an uuid.

Why so? As the name says they just need to be universally unique. Even relying purely on randomness seems bad, because you are at the mercy of the entropy source. Mess that up and you can end up with nasty problems throughout your system.

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