Sorry, I still don't get it. It's a timestamp plus a random number. As their references show, plenty of people have figured out this is a fine strategy. I co

Sorry, I still don't get it. It's a timestamp plus a random number. As their references show, plenty of people have figured out this is a fine strategy. I could explain to an intern how to build this in 10 seconds with "use a 48 bit timestamp plus 80 bits of random, then encode it as a hex string" and they're done. Finding timestamps and high-quality RNG's is just not hard these days. Replace "hex string" with "base62 encoding" and we have something significantly better than a UUID. I get that the UUID authors feel a need to tell people there's a better way to do it, and I guess adding a new version to their standard is easier than telling people to go use something else like ULID. But I still don't see it as particularly important.