title: Why use acronyms at the beginning of a resource ID?
body: <p>Why are some financial APIs using acronyms at the beginning of a resource ID? Is there a specific reason? Avoid coalition of ID's?</p>
  <p>And, is it possible to have a coalition of V4 UUIDs in short mode? How to avoid?</p>
  <p><strong>PS1</strong>: Example of IDs with acronyms at the beginning: <code>card_1HHTFf2eZvKYlo2Cfk8wcBwa</code>,<code> tok_1HHTFg2eZvKYlo2CJyMFQfnf</code> in <a href="https://stripe.com/docs/api/cards" rel="nofollow noreferrer">Stripe API</a> and <code>acc_1234567890cc</code> in <a href="https://docs.yapily.com/?version=latest#19909d3a-0d5c-4e06-b97e-0d779df3b49d" rel="nofollow noreferrer">Yapily API</a>.</p>
  <p><strong>PS2</strong>: I use the NPM <a href="https://www.npmjs.com/package/short-uuid" rel="nofollow noreferrer">short-uuid</a> package so that the V4 UUIDs are in short mode.</p>