Lightroom and Flickr ID feature gap

I'm confounded by Lightroom and its plug-ins' lack of support for Flickr's photo-ID.
Flickr photo-ID is a unique 10, 11, or 12 digit number assigned to a photo when it is uploaded to their site.
The number is used in Flickr URLs and by 3rd parties like wikipedia and wikimedia   http://www.flickr.com/photo_zoom.gne?id=233397357&size=o  and Apple's Aperture Flickr ID meta data field.    ( The id=233397357 is the Flickr photo Id number.)
Why is this useful?  Just type that ID number into a Google search, don't include the word Flickr or ID, you will see that Flickr ID is referenced by at least ten different websites that Google searches!  Wouldn't that ID be useful information to have in your Lightroom metadata?
The schemes used by Lightroom plugin developers seem to rely on things in the file names or metadata that can change, (creation date, upload date, filename) When contacted, the LR plugin developers say they can't do something that Apple and the Aperture plug-in developers have been doing for years. Admittedly, it's not an IPTC defined field, but we have plenty of custom fields to use.
The Flickr photo-ID doesn't change if you change filename, caption, add keywords or comments, sync metadata, or do any post processing (including cropping) - other than replacing the file from your desktop.  Which seems to me to be safe so that, for example, a URL pointing to the picture above by the Wikipedia article, doesn't suddenly find a pornographic picture there.
Jay

Have you tried the third-party Export to Flickr plugin, which has many more features than the Flickr publish service built-in to LR?  It provides the Flickr URL via the "At Flickr" metadata field, which you can access via LR's Metadata panel, with the metadata set All Plug-in Metadata.   The URL contains the Flickr ID.

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