A question about naming components.

[Martin Sevior <msevior mccubbin ph unimelb edu au>]

Hi Folks,
	Pretty soon we'll release an AbiWord 1.0.2 rpm which supports the
interfaces: bonobo
control/embeddable/zoomable/printable/property
bag/persist/persist stream/ persist file. 

It will be immediately embeddable in evolution and gnumeric. However I
have a question about naming the component. We've named our component

  <oaf_server
	      iid="OAFIID:GNOME_AbiWord_Control"
	      type="factory"
	      location="OAFIID:GNOME_AbiWord_ControlFactory">

However I noticed that many other components have long, randomly
generated text strings after their names. What is the purpose of
those? Should we do the same? If we release 1.0.3 with a different string 
of random characters will it still work with evolution/gnumeric?

More-over if a random hacker wants to use the AbiWord component in her
application will she have to get the long random string of characters
exactly correct when asking for the AbiWord control?

Thanks very much!

Martin Sevior