But unless you rigorously enforce the hash=name convention, you can't get its benefits. (Benefits like stability and implicit verification.) And shoehorning the

But unless you rigorously enforce the hash=name convention, you can't get its benefits. (Benefits like stability and implicit verification.) And shoehorning the hash into the constrained UUID format hides/confuses the conventions you're committing to. If you name is a hash, and really needs to be a hash, that should be evident, not squeezed into the bitfields of a 'UUID'.