Draft 03, Phase 4 PR

[kyzer-davis]

3-9-2022 changelog:

• Relaxed introduction to a single one-liner.
• Updated text everywhere for variable length UUID defined as UUID Long Discussion: Variable Length UUIDs | UUID Long new-uuid-encoding-techniques-ietf-draft#2
• Updated text everywhere for alternate encodings in Discussion: Alternate Text Encoding Methods (Crockford's Base32, etc) new-uuid-encoding-techniques-ietf-draft#3
• Renamed Section and moved Opacity to it's own section to resolve Draft 03: Recommend Database Side UUID Generation #79
• Defined v7/v8 along with v7E/v8E as I stated in Discussion: Redefine variant bit (111) definition #26
  • Also updated appendix for test vectors.
• Re-organized and dropped counter method 2 as per discussions on Discussion: Monotonicity and Counters #60
• Updated references for RFC 4648
• Moved variant and version out of formats and grouped UUIDs by new formats, alternate variants, and alternate formats.

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Reviewers:

• Please discuss changes in this PR within the threads above to keep discussions grouped nicely together.

[bradleypeabody]

Thanks @kyzer-davis generally this is shaping up but I worry about this UUID 7 vs 7E, etc. - I think we need to coordinate further on this point. I'll be in touch on this. Just from a quick review the rest of it overall makes sense and probably any other issues I have could be addressed with minor edits which I can follow up with later after I've reviewed in more detail (this thing is still changing so quickly I haven't had a chance to read it from start to end without it changing as I'm reading it, lol - but hey, it's definitely shaping up so no worries.)

Let's chat about this 7 vs 7E thing and then decide if this should be merged as is or what.

[kyzer-davis]

@bradleypeabody,

All good.
I have been burning the candle at both ends and iterating on the text daily based on the discussion threads in order to get this text ready for March 31st IETF resubmission.

[kyzer-davis]

Updated Fixed Length Counters for N-1 Technique over zero start as per #60

[kyzer-davis]

I have removed E Variant, Alt Encoding and UUID Long sections from the document.
This XML has been retained and will be used for the start of a new draft on these 3 topics.