[zeromq-dev] routing adress problem

[Pieter Hintjens]

On Mon, Dec 5, 2011 at 1:55 PM, gonzalo diethelm <gdiethelm at dcv.cl> wrote:

> You said that “ZMQ UUIDs should not be used as long term identifiers to
> clients, since they are guaranteed to be unique per *connection*”. Are you
> sure about this? UUIDs are supposed to be universally unique (hence their
> name).

You should not use identities as long-term handles to clients. They
specifically and only make sense as short-term identifiers for
connections to a single ROUTER socket, period.

The current use of UUIDs is an internal mechanism, not documented.
libzmq can change its mind at any stage.

-Pieter