internal identifier

Internal identifier of an object within the repository. The internal identifier represents a more compact form of an object identifier. An internal identifier is only guaranteed to be unique within a single repository. An object identifier is guaranteed to be unique across all repositories. The internal identifier is an 8-byte quantity. The first 4 bytes constitute a site identifier (site ID). The last 4 bytes constitute the local identifier (local ID).

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