----- Original Message -----
From: "Ann W. Harrison" <aharrison@...>
> Jason Wharton wrote:
>
> >One significant problem here is in keeping the associations between name
and
> >ID when doing stuff like a backup and restore.
>
> Yup. That's the problem.
>
GUIDs are helpful beasts for these kind of things (and swapping 32 character
names for 16 byte references shouldn't shock anyone). But of course, the
backup & restore operations would still have to be modified for this to
work.