The rfc is rather long for a UUID being just a random integer... But if we're talking about UUID v4, it seems that 122 out of 128 are indeed random. [1] So why

The rfc is rather long for a UUID being just a random integer... But if we're talking about UUID v4, it seems that 122 out of 128 are indeed random. [1] So why not just go all the way? Who cares about these 6 bits of meta data? [1] https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc412 https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc412