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**Comment by [cdsteinkuehler](https://github.com/cdsteinkuehler)** _Thu Apr 17 17:30:11 2014_ ---- On 4/17/2014 10:59 AM, Michael Haberler wrote: > The 'Twitter snowflake' sounds interesting as a basis; I would like to avoid...

**Comment by [mhaberler](https://github.com/mhaberler)** _Thu Apr 17 18:08:59 2014_ ---- yes, that's the idea. And time synchronization is a non-requirement, my bad. And global time is not a useful concept for...

**Comment by [mhaberler](https://github.com/mhaberler)** _Fri Apr 18 08:18:21 2014_ ---- let's start with a modified Instagram scheme. Assume 64bits timestamp size. I'll swap the sequence number and 'shard ID' fields in...

**Comment by [cdsteinkuehler](https://github.com/cdsteinkuehler)** _Fri Apr 18 21:22:13 2014_ ---- On 4/18/2014 3:18 AM, Michael Haberler wrote: > There's one variant which might warrant consideration: use timestamps > relative to startup....

**Comment by [mhaberler](https://github.com/mhaberler)** _Sat Apr 19 09:04:09 2014_ ---- just exploring the boundary cases, which includes overkill. IMO it's not completely out of scope to consider a long-running application like...

**Comment by [cdsteinkuehler](https://github.com/cdsteinkuehler)** _Sat Apr 19 11:30:20 2014_ ---- On 4/19/2014 4:04 AM, Michael Haberler wrote: > IMO it's not completely out of scope to consider a long-running > application...

**Comment by [mhaberler](https://github.com/mhaberler)** _Sat Apr 19 11:55:22 2014_ ---- Right. Need to exclude any chances of problems. To distinguish one ID from another, the equality operator is sufficient. But just...

**Comment by [cdsteinkuehler](https://github.com/cdsteinkuehler)** _Sat Apr 19 13:01:07 2014_ ---- On 4/19/2014 6:55 AM, Michael Haberler wrote: > To distinguish one ID from another, the equality operator is > sufficient. But...

**Comment by [mhaberler](https://github.com/mhaberler)** _Sat Apr 19 15:08:49 2014_ ---- right, and time sortability gives us the queuing order of a single originator (endpoints might, and do receive commands from more...

**Comment by [cdsteinkuehler](https://github.com/cdsteinkuehler)** _Sat Apr 19 15:22:53 2014_ ---- On 4/19/2014 10:08 AM, Michael Haberler wrote: > right, and time sortability gives us the queuing order of a single >...