In discussions on the geographic_info mailing list, it became apparent
that common ROS universally unique identifier support would be useful.

 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uuid

So, I volunteered to create a simple stack containing a single message
with some thin Python and C++ convenience functions to access it.

 http://ros.org/wiki/unique_identifier/Reviews/2012-07-06_API_Review

If you can, please add your name and comments to that review page, we
need community feedback. The interface is small. This should not take
much of your time. Please provide comments before next Friday,
2012-07-13, I would like to close the review then.

Thanks,
-- 
 joq