[syndication] Re: [RSS-DEV] Cross-Site Unique ID Formats? And ID Debating...

[Morbus Iff <morbus@disobey.com>]

>> a Microsoft COM GUID. These are 128 bits long and are, as the docs
>> "unique to a high degree of certainty." It would be cool if this
>> was included somewhere within the RSS <channel> tag, and if there
>
>for the feed at http://www.scripting.com.  Just take an MD5 hash of
>the URL "http://www.scripting.com";.  You get back a 128-bit number,
>and you are more likely to get hit by meteors twice in the same spot
>than that someone else's feed will have the same unique ID.  Now if

Hmmm... that's not a bad idea.
How do other people feel about md5-ing the xmlUrl?

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