[mb-devel] Special UUIDs

[Robert Kaye]

On Jul 5, 2006, at 1:54 AM, Nicholas J Humfrey wrote:
> I need a way to mark those as 'will not match'. Having a blank 
> 'MusicBrainz Artist Id' means to me 'hasn't been matched up yet', so I 
> was thinking of using a special UUID to indicate 'will never be in 
> MusicBrainz'.
>
> Does anyone else have a need for a Special UUID like this? Would it be 
> useful to be standardized?

I'm not sure -- maybe you should just generate one UUID on your side 
and use that. I'm not sure if there is any benefit to standardizing 
this.

>  Is using 00000000-0000-0000-0000-000000000000 a bad idea?

Yes, that is being used in reference to some TRM issues.

> --

--ruaok         Somewhere in Texas a village is *still* missing its 
idiot.

Robert Kaye     --     rob at eorbit.net     --    http://mayhem-chaos.net