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+This module provides a framework for generating UUIDs (Universally
+Unique Identifiers, also known as GUIDs (Globally Unique Identifiers).
+A UUID is 128 bits long, and is guaranteed to be different from all
+other UUIDs/GUIDs generated until 3400 A.D. Currently many different
+technologies rely on UUIDs to provide unique identity for various
+software components.
+
+The algorithm for UUID generation, used by this extension, is described
+in the Internet Draft "UUIDs and GUIDs" by Paul J. Leach and Rich Salz.
+It provides reasonably efficient and reliable framework for generating
+UUIDs and supports fairly high allocation rates - 10 million per second
+per machine, and therefore, is suitable for identifying both - extremely
+short-lived and very persistent objects on a given system as well as
+across the network.
+
+WWW: http://search.cpan.org/search?dist=Data-UUID
+WWW: http://www.globecom.net/ietf/draft/draft-leach-uuids-guids-01.txt
+
+-- Sergey Skvortsov
+skv@FreeBSD.org