> It's been a while since I read the details on the spec, or I
> would cite the primary source. Sorry. I know how important
> primary sources are.

Thanks for taking the time to explain. I did some additional
searching based on this information and found that...

MS GUID is the MS implementation of UUID
details of UUID can be found at:
http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9629399/apdxa.htm

which pretty much confirms everything you said.

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Geoff Worboys
Telesis Computing