draft-davis-uuidrev-uuid-long

Longer Universally Unique IDentifiers (UUIDs)

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This document extends Universally Unique Identifiers (UUIDs) beyond 128 bits to facilitate enhanced collision resistance and proper room for embedding additional data within a given UUID algorithm. These longer variable-length UUIDs ("UUID Long") leverage a previously unused variant bit "F" and feature a new sub-typing mechanism created to ensure there is enough space to define many future UUID algorithms within this new variant of UUIDs. This document updates RFC9562.