[derefr]

> "Bob-4592-daring-weasel-horseradish"

You could easily have a bijective encoding at a frontend proxy that translates between the above and e.g.

> "4592-13f7-de41-203a"

(i.e. discards the descriptive part of the slug, and then reverses the unique words back into their index-positions in the same static 64k-word dictionary used for generation, resulting in a regular UUID.)

[saghm]

That doesn't solve the issue that neither of those are human-friendly, which was the point as in understood it