diff --git a/akka-actor/src/main/resources/reference.conf b/akka-actor/src/main/resources/reference.conf
index 198eaf8846..9d1e6fa1d1 100644
--- a/akka-actor/src/main/resources/reference.conf
+++ b/akka-actor/src/main/resources/reference.conf
@@ -492,6 +492,17 @@ akka {
       "[B" = bytes
       "java.io.Serializable" = java
     }
+    
+    # Configuration namespace of serialization identifiers.
+    # Each serializer implementation must have an entry in the following format:
+    # `akka.actor.serialization-identifiers."FQCN" = ID`
+    # where `FQCN` is fully qualified class name of the serializer implementation
+    # and `ID` is globally unique serializer identifier number.
+    # Identifier values from 0 to 16 are reserved for Akka internal usage.
+    serialization-identifiers {
+      "akka.serialization.JavaSerializer" = 1
+      "akka.serialization.ByteArraySerializer" = 4  
+    }
 
     # Configuration items which are used by the akka.actor.ActorDSL._ methods
     dsl {
diff --git a/akka-actor/src/main/scala/akka/serialization/Serializer.scala b/akka-actor/src/main/scala/akka/serialization/Serializer.scala
index 622df661b2..14b23a605d 100644
--- a/akka-actor/src/main/scala/akka/serialization/Serializer.scala
+++ b/akka-actor/src/main/scala/akka/serialization/Serializer.scala
@@ -33,8 +33,8 @@ import akka.serialization.JavaSerializer.CurrentSystem
 trait Serializer {
 
   /**
-   * Completely unique value to identify this implementation of Serializer, used to optimize network traffic
-   * Values from 0 to 16 is reserved for Akka internal usage
+   * Completely unique value to identify this implementation of Serializer, used to optimize network traffic.
+   * Values from 0 to 16 are reserved for Akka internal usage.
    */
   def identifier: Int
 
@@ -65,6 +65,33 @@ trait Serializer {
   final def fromBinary(bytes: Array[Byte], clazz: Class[_]): AnyRef = fromBinary(bytes, Option(clazz))
 }
 
+/**
+ *  Base serializer trait with serialization identifiers configuration contract,
+ *  when globally unique serialization identifier is configured in the `reference.conf`.
+ */
+trait BaseSerializer extends Serializer {
+  /**
+   *  Actor system which is required by most serializer implementations.
+   */
+  val system: ExtendedActorSystem
+  /**
+   * Configuration namespace of serialization identifiers in the `reference.conf`.
+   *
+   * Each serializer implementation must have an entry in the following format:
+   * `akka.actor.serialization-identifiers."FQCN" = ID`
+   * where `FQCN` is fully qualified class name of the serializer implementation
+   * and `ID` is globally unique serializer identifier number.
+   */
+  final val SerializationIdentifiers = "akka.actor.serialization-identifiers"
+  /**
+   * Globally unique serialization identifier configured in the `reference.conf`.
+   *
+   * See [[Serializer#identifier()]].
+   */
+  final override val identifier: Int =
+    system.settings.config.getInt(s"""${SerializationIdentifiers}."${getClass.getName}"""")
+}
+
 /**
  * Java API for creating a Serializer: make sure to include a constructor which
  * takes exactly one argument of type [[akka.actor.ExtendedActorSystem]], because
@@ -117,12 +144,10 @@ object JavaSerializer {
 /**
  * This Serializer uses standard Java Serialization
  */
-class JavaSerializer(val system: ExtendedActorSystem) extends Serializer {
+class JavaSerializer(val system: ExtendedActorSystem) extends BaseSerializer {
 
   def includeManifest: Boolean = false
 
-  def identifier = 1
-
   def toBinary(o: AnyRef): Array[Byte] = {
     val bos = new ByteArrayOutputStream
     val out = new ObjectOutputStream(bos)
@@ -154,9 +179,8 @@ class NullSerializer extends Serializer {
  * This is a special Serializer that Serializes and deserializes byte arrays only,
  * (just returns the byte array unchanged/uncopied)
  */
-class ByteArraySerializer extends Serializer {
+class ByteArraySerializer(val system: ExtendedActorSystem) extends BaseSerializer {
   def includeManifest: Boolean = false
-  def identifier = 4
   def toBinary(o: AnyRef) = o match {
     case null           ⇒ null
     case o: Array[Byte] ⇒ o
diff --git a/akka-actor/src/main/scala/akka/util/ByteString.scala b/akka-actor/src/main/scala/akka/util/ByteString.scala
index 91d7dff6e8..9e72959db9 100644
--- a/akka-actor/src/main/scala/akka/util/ByteString.scala
+++ b/akka-actor/src/main/scala/akka/util/ByteString.scala
@@ -66,7 +66,7 @@ object ByteString {
    */
   @varargs
   def fromInts(array: Int*): ByteString =
-    apply(array:_*)(scala.math.Numeric.IntIsIntegral)
+    apply(array: _*)(scala.math.Numeric.IntIsIntegral)
 
   /**
    * Creates a new ByteString which will contain the UTF-8 representation of the given String
diff --git a/akka-cluster-metrics/src/main/resources/reference.conf b/akka-cluster-metrics/src/main/resources/reference.conf
index b00a354bb6..876746a7fb 100644
--- a/akka-cluster-metrics/src/main/resources/reference.conf
+++ b/akka-cluster-metrics/src/main/resources/reference.conf
@@ -29,8 +29,6 @@ akka.cluster.metrics {
     # Sigar native library extract location.
     # Use per-application-instance scoped location, such as program working directory.
     native-library-extract-folder = ${user.dir}"/native"
-    # Unique serialization identifier. Must not conflict with any other in an akka system.
-    serializer-identifier = 10
     # Metrics supervisor actor.
     supervisor {
         # Actor name. Example name space: /system/cluster-metrics
@@ -97,6 +95,10 @@ akka.actor {
     serialization-bindings {
        "akka.cluster.metrics.ClusterMetricsMessage" = akka-cluster-metrics
     }
+    # Globally unique metrics extension serializer identifier.
+    serialization-identifiers {
+      "akka.cluster.metrics.protobuf.MessageSerializer" = 10
+    }
     #  Provide routing of messages based on cluster metrics.
     router.type-mapping {
         cluster-metrics-adaptive-pool  = "akka.cluster.metrics.AdaptiveLoadBalancingPool"
diff --git a/akka-cluster-metrics/src/main/scala/akka/cluster/metrics/ClusterMetricsSettings.scala b/akka-cluster-metrics/src/main/scala/akka/cluster/metrics/ClusterMetricsSettings.scala
index 93d06660cc..7d76dcf983 100644
--- a/akka-cluster-metrics/src/main/scala/akka/cluster/metrics/ClusterMetricsSettings.scala
+++ b/akka-cluster-metrics/src/main/scala/akka/cluster/metrics/ClusterMetricsSettings.scala
@@ -25,7 +25,6 @@ case class ClusterMetricsSettings(config: Config) {
   }
   val PeriodicTasksInitialDelay: FiniteDuration = cc.getMillisDuration("periodic-tasks-initial-delay")
   val NativeLibraryExtractFolder: String = cc.getString("native-library-extract-folder")
-  val SerializerIdentifier: Int = cc.getInt("serializer-identifier")
 
   // Supervisor.
   val SupervisorName: String = cc.getString("supervisor.name")
diff --git a/akka-cluster-metrics/src/main/scala/akka/cluster/metrics/protobuf/MessageSerializer.scala b/akka-cluster-metrics/src/main/scala/akka/cluster/metrics/protobuf/MessageSerializer.scala
index 661cfdc401..fb67db2ac7 100644
--- a/akka-cluster-metrics/src/main/scala/akka/cluster/metrics/protobuf/MessageSerializer.scala
+++ b/akka-cluster-metrics/src/main/scala/akka/cluster/metrics/protobuf/MessageSerializer.scala
@@ -11,7 +11,7 @@ import java.{ lang ⇒ jl }
 import akka.actor.{ Address, ExtendedActorSystem }
 import akka.cluster.metrics.protobuf.msg.{ ClusterMetricsMessages ⇒ cm }
 import akka.cluster.metrics.{ ClusterMetricsMessage, ClusterMetricsSettings, EWMA, Metric, MetricsGossip, MetricsGossipEnvelope, NodeMetrics }
-import akka.serialization.Serializer
+import akka.serialization.BaseSerializer
 import akka.util.ClassLoaderObjectInputStream
 import com.google.protobuf.{ ByteString, MessageLite }
 
@@ -21,7 +21,7 @@ import scala.collection.JavaConverters.{ asJavaIterableConverter, asScalaBufferC
 /**
  * Protobuf serializer for [[ClusterMetricsMessage]] types.
  */
-class MessageSerializer(val system: ExtendedActorSystem) extends Serializer {
+class MessageSerializer(val system: ExtendedActorSystem) extends BaseSerializer {
 
   private final val BufferSize = 4 * 1024
 
@@ -30,8 +30,6 @@ class MessageSerializer(val system: ExtendedActorSystem) extends Serializer {
 
   override val includeManifest: Boolean = true
 
-  override val identifier = ClusterMetricsSettings(system.settings.config).SerializerIdentifier
-
   override def toBinary(obj: AnyRef): Array[Byte] = obj match {
     case m: MetricsGossipEnvelope ⇒
       compress(metricsGossipEnvelopeToProto(m))
diff --git a/akka-cluster-metrics/src/test/scala/akka/cluster/metrics/ClusterMetricsSettingsSpec.scala b/akka-cluster-metrics/src/test/scala/akka/cluster/metrics/ClusterMetricsSettingsSpec.scala
index 939fb1628d..723041d08f 100644
--- a/akka-cluster-metrics/src/test/scala/akka/cluster/metrics/ClusterMetricsSettingsSpec.scala
+++ b/akka-cluster-metrics/src/test/scala/akka/cluster/metrics/ClusterMetricsSettingsSpec.scala
@@ -25,7 +25,6 @@ class ClusterMetricsSettingsSpec extends AkkaSpec {
       MetricsDispatcher should be(Dispatchers.DefaultDispatcherId)
       PeriodicTasksInitialDelay should be(1 second)
       NativeLibraryExtractFolder should be(System.getProperty("user.dir") + "/native")
-      SerializerIdentifier should be(10)
 
       // Supervisor.
       SupervisorName should be("cluster-metrics")
diff --git a/akka-cluster/src/main/resources/reference.conf b/akka-cluster/src/main/resources/reference.conf
index bba463988a..d94ab0da5b 100644
--- a/akka-cluster/src/main/resources/reference.conf
+++ b/akka-cluster/src/main/resources/reference.conf
@@ -226,6 +226,10 @@ akka {
       "akka.cluster.ClusterMessage" = akka-cluster
     }
     
+    serialization-identifiers {
+      "akka.cluster.protobuf.ClusterMessageSerializer" = 5
+    }
+    
     router.type-mapping {
       adaptive-pool = "akka.cluster.routing.AdaptiveLoadBalancingPool"
       adaptive-group = "akka.cluster.routing.AdaptiveLoadBalancingGroup"
diff --git a/akka-cluster/src/main/scala/akka/cluster/protobuf/ClusterMessageSerializer.scala b/akka-cluster/src/main/scala/akka/cluster/protobuf/ClusterMessageSerializer.scala
index c6de909716..ddf29b6ade 100644
--- a/akka-cluster/src/main/scala/akka/cluster/protobuf/ClusterMessageSerializer.scala
+++ b/akka-cluster/src/main/scala/akka/cluster/protobuf/ClusterMessageSerializer.scala
@@ -10,7 +10,7 @@ import java.{ lang ⇒ jl }
 import akka.actor.{ Address, ExtendedActorSystem }
 import akka.cluster._
 import akka.cluster.protobuf.msg.{ ClusterMessages ⇒ cm }
-import akka.serialization.Serializer
+import akka.serialization.BaseSerializer
 import akka.util.ClassLoaderObjectInputStream
 import com.google.protobuf.{ ByteString, MessageLite }
 
@@ -22,7 +22,7 @@ import scala.concurrent.duration.Deadline
 /**
  * Protobuf serializer of cluster messages.
  */
-class ClusterMessageSerializer(val system: ExtendedActorSystem) extends Serializer {
+class ClusterMessageSerializer(val system: ExtendedActorSystem) extends BaseSerializer {
 
   private final val BufferSize = 1024 * 4
   // must be lazy because serializer is initialized from Cluster extension constructor
@@ -53,8 +53,6 @@ class ClusterMessageSerializer(val system: ExtendedActorSystem) extends Serializ
 
   def includeManifest: Boolean = true
 
-  def identifier = 5
-
   def toBinary(obj: AnyRef): Array[Byte] = obj match {
     case ClusterHeartbeatSender.Heartbeat(from)      ⇒ addressToProtoByteArray(from)
     case ClusterHeartbeatSender.HeartbeatRsp(from)   ⇒ uniqueAddressToProtoByteArray(from)
diff --git a/akka-contrib/src/main/resources/reference.conf b/akka-contrib/src/main/resources/reference.conf
index a858df7221..d8c942b19f 100644
--- a/akka-contrib/src/main/resources/reference.conf
+++ b/akka-contrib/src/main/resources/reference.conf
@@ -40,6 +40,9 @@ akka.actor {
   serialization-bindings {
     "akka.contrib.pattern.DistributedPubSubMessage" = akka-pubsub
   }
+  serialization-identifiers {
+    "akka.contrib.pattern.protobuf.DistributedPubSubMessageSerializer" = 9
+  }
 }
 
 
diff --git a/akka-contrib/src/main/scala/akka/contrib/pattern/protobuf/DistributedPubSubMessageSerializer.scala b/akka-contrib/src/main/scala/akka/contrib/pattern/protobuf/DistributedPubSubMessageSerializer.scala
index fa9c43d0e4..3671c866ba 100644
--- a/akka-contrib/src/main/scala/akka/contrib/pattern/protobuf/DistributedPubSubMessageSerializer.scala
+++ b/akka-contrib/src/main/scala/akka/contrib/pattern/protobuf/DistributedPubSubMessageSerializer.scala
@@ -3,7 +3,7 @@
  */
 package akka.contrib.pattern.protobuf
 
-import akka.serialization.Serializer
+import akka.serialization.BaseSerializer
 import akka.cluster._
 import scala.collection.breakOut
 import akka.actor.{ ExtendedActorSystem, Address }
@@ -31,7 +31,7 @@ import scala.collection.immutable.TreeMap
 /**
  * Protobuf serializer of DistributedPubSubMediator messages.
  */
-class DistributedPubSubMessageSerializer(val system: ExtendedActorSystem) extends Serializer {
+class DistributedPubSubMessageSerializer(val system: ExtendedActorSystem) extends BaseSerializer {
 
   private final val BufferSize = 1024 * 4
 
@@ -44,8 +44,6 @@ class DistributedPubSubMessageSerializer(val system: ExtendedActorSystem) extend
 
   def includeManifest: Boolean = true
 
-  def identifier = 9
-
   def toBinary(obj: AnyRef): Array[Byte] = obj match {
     case m: Status    ⇒ compress(statusToProto(m))
     case m: Delta     ⇒ compress(deltaToProto(m))
diff --git a/akka-persistence/src/main/scala/akka/persistence/serialization/MessageSerializer.scala b/akka-persistence/src/main/scala/akka/persistence/serialization/MessageSerializer.scala
index 7d056f1a31..b9c10950ff 100644
--- a/akka-persistence/src/main/scala/akka/persistence/serialization/MessageSerializer.scala
+++ b/akka-persistence/src/main/scala/akka/persistence/serialization/MessageSerializer.scala
@@ -23,15 +23,13 @@ trait Message extends Serializable
 /**
  * Protobuf serializer for [[PersistentRepr]] and [[AtLeastOnceDelivery]] messages.
  */
-class MessageSerializer(val system: ExtendedActorSystem) extends Serializer {
+class MessageSerializer(val system: ExtendedActorSystem) extends BaseSerializer {
   import PersistentRepr.Undefined
 
   val PersistentReprClass = classOf[PersistentRepr]
   val PersistentImplClass = classOf[PersistentImpl]
   val AtLeastOnceDeliverySnapshotClass = classOf[AtLeastOnceDeliverySnap]
 
-  val SerializationIdentifiers = "akka.actor.serialization-identifiers" // TODO move to [[Serializer]]
-  override val identifier: Int = system.settings.config.getInt(s"""${SerializationIdentifiers}."${getClass.getName}"""")
   override val includeManifest: Boolean = true
 
   private lazy val transportInformation: Option[Serialization.Information] = {
diff --git a/akka-persistence/src/main/scala/akka/persistence/serialization/SnapshotSerializer.scala b/akka-persistence/src/main/scala/akka/persistence/serialization/SnapshotSerializer.scala
index 7af2ef9e85..889e8ff9e7 100644
--- a/akka-persistence/src/main/scala/akka/persistence/serialization/SnapshotSerializer.scala
+++ b/akka-persistence/src/main/scala/akka/persistence/serialization/SnapshotSerializer.scala
@@ -7,8 +7,7 @@ package akka.persistence.serialization
 
 import java.io._
 import akka.actor._
-import akka.serialization.{ Serializer, SerializationExtension }
-import akka.serialization.Serialization
+import akka.serialization._
 import scala.util.Success
 import scala.util.Failure
 
@@ -30,10 +29,8 @@ private[serialization] final case class SnapshotHeader(serializerId: Int, manife
 /**
  * [[Snapshot]] serializer.
  */
-class SnapshotSerializer(system: ExtendedActorSystem) extends Serializer {
+class SnapshotSerializer(val system: ExtendedActorSystem) extends BaseSerializer {
 
-  val SerializationIdentifiers = "akka.actor.serialization-identifiers" // TODO move to [[Serializer]]
-  override val identifier: Int = system.settings.config.getInt(s"""${SerializationIdentifiers}."${getClass.getName}"""")
   override val includeManifest: Boolean = false
 
   private lazy val transportInformation: Option[Serialization.Information] = {
diff --git a/akka-remote/src/main/resources/reference.conf b/akka-remote/src/main/resources/reference.conf
index 77b7a6d27f..85c553c78d 100644
--- a/akka-remote/src/main/resources/reference.conf
+++ b/akka-remote/src/main/resources/reference.conf
@@ -18,7 +18,6 @@ akka {
       daemon-create = "akka.remote.serialization.DaemonMsgCreateSerializer"
     }
 
-
     serialization-bindings {
       # Since com.google.protobuf.Message does not extend Serializable but
       # GeneratedMessage does, need to use the more specific one here in order
@@ -28,6 +27,12 @@ akka {
       "akka.remote.DaemonMsgCreate" = daemon-create
     }
 
+    serialization-identifiers {
+      "akka.remote.serialization.ProtobufSerializer" = 2
+      "akka.remote.serialization.DaemonMsgCreateSerializer" = 3
+      "akka.remote.serialization.MessageContainerSerializer" = 6
+    }
+
     deployment {
 
       default {
diff --git a/akka-remote/src/main/scala/akka/remote/serialization/DaemonMsgCreateSerializer.scala b/akka-remote/src/main/scala/akka/remote/serialization/DaemonMsgCreateSerializer.scala
index 5d28d0da70..6cea45ee17 100644
--- a/akka-remote/src/main/scala/akka/remote/serialization/DaemonMsgCreateSerializer.scala
+++ b/akka-remote/src/main/scala/akka/remote/serialization/DaemonMsgCreateSerializer.scala
@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@
 
 package akka.remote.serialization
 
-import akka.serialization.{ Serializer, SerializationExtension }
+import akka.serialization.{ BaseSerializer, SerializationExtension }
 import java.io.Serializable
 import com.google.protobuf.ByteString
 import com.typesafe.config.{ Config, ConfigFactory }
@@ -24,13 +24,13 @@ import util.{ Failure, Success }
  *
  * INTERNAL API
  */
-private[akka] class DaemonMsgCreateSerializer(val system: ExtendedActorSystem) extends Serializer {
+private[akka] class DaemonMsgCreateSerializer(val system: ExtendedActorSystem) extends BaseSerializer {
   import ProtobufSerializer.serializeActorRef
   import ProtobufSerializer.deserializeActorRef
   import Deploy.NoDispatcherGiven
 
   def includeManifest: Boolean = false
-  def identifier = 3
+
   lazy val serialization = SerializationExtension(system)
 
   def toBinary(obj: AnyRef): Array[Byte] = obj match {
diff --git a/akka-remote/src/main/scala/akka/remote/serialization/MessageContainerSerializer.scala b/akka-remote/src/main/scala/akka/remote/serialization/MessageContainerSerializer.scala
index 0f6b82e085..56966133fe 100644
--- a/akka-remote/src/main/scala/akka/remote/serialization/MessageContainerSerializer.scala
+++ b/akka-remote/src/main/scala/akka/remote/serialization/MessageContainerSerializer.scala
@@ -13,11 +13,9 @@ import akka.actor.SelectParent
 import akka.actor.SelectionPathElement
 import akka.remote.ContainerFormats
 import akka.serialization.SerializationExtension
-import akka.serialization.Serializer
+import akka.serialization.BaseSerializer
 
-class MessageContainerSerializer(val system: ExtendedActorSystem) extends Serializer {
-
-  def identifier: Int = 6
+class MessageContainerSerializer(val system: ExtendedActorSystem) extends BaseSerializer {
 
   def includeManifest: Boolean = false
 
diff --git a/akka-remote/src/main/scala/akka/remote/serialization/ProtobufSerializer.scala b/akka-remote/src/main/scala/akka/remote/serialization/ProtobufSerializer.scala
index 019bcf61fd..0b825cb91e 100644
--- a/akka-remote/src/main/scala/akka/remote/serialization/ProtobufSerializer.scala
+++ b/akka-remote/src/main/scala/akka/remote/serialization/ProtobufSerializer.scala
@@ -9,7 +9,7 @@ import java.util.concurrent.atomic.AtomicReference
 
 import akka.actor.{ ActorRef, ExtendedActorSystem }
 import akka.remote.WireFormats.ActorRefData
-import akka.serialization.{ Serialization, Serializer }
+import akka.serialization.{ Serialization, BaseSerializer }
 import com.google.protobuf.Message
 
 import scala.annotation.tailrec
@@ -37,12 +37,10 @@ object ProtobufSerializer {
 /**
  * This Serializer serializes `com.google.protobuf.Message`s
  */
-class ProtobufSerializer extends Serializer {
+class ProtobufSerializer(val system: ExtendedActorSystem) extends BaseSerializer {
 
   private val parsingMethodBindingRef = new AtomicReference[Map[Class[_], Method]](Map.empty)
 
-  override def identifier: Int = 2
-
   override def includeManifest: Boolean = true
 
   override def fromBinary(bytes: Array[Byte], manifest: Option[Class[_]]): AnyRef = {