Universally Unique Identifier
copied from cf-staging / ossuuid
conda install conda-forge::ossuuidconda install conda-forge/label/cf201901::ossuuidconda install conda-forge/label/cf202003::ossuuidconda install conda-forge/label/gcc7::ossuuid
UIDs are 128 bit numbers which are intended to have a high likelihood of uniqueness over space and time and are computationally difficult to guess. They are globally unique identifiers which can be locally generated without contacting a global registration authority. UUIDs are intended as unique identifiers for both mass tagging objects with an extremely short lifetime and to reliably identifying very persistent objects across a network.