8370910: Cleanup terminology of UUID vs Global Identifiers in UUID

[RogerRiggs]

Backport of doc-only information about scope of UUID class.

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• JDK-8370910: Cleanup terminology of UUID vs Global Identifiers in UUID (Bug - P4)

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• Jaikiran Pai (@jaikiran - Reviewer)

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Going to push as commit c46e6350aa1e339e845a1fd7a11419f327ae651d.

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@RogerRiggs Pushed as commit c46e6350aa1e339e845a1fd7a11419f327ae651d.

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