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Most applications also seem to expect that such identifiers never change, which combined with the other requirements (globally unique, not overly long, not ugly, known/recognizable to the subject) makes this impossible to fulfill at most academic institutions. I.e., you can't win and no one attribute can solve all the requirements people throw at it.

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