The nice thing about them is you don’t have to assume, though, because the version is baked into an octet. Does the 3rd field start with a 4? v4. 7? v7. Etc. R

The nice thing about them is you don’t have to assume, though, because the version is baked into an octet. Does the 3rd field start with a 4? v4. 7? v7. Etc. Re: monotonicity, as I view it, v7 is the best compromise I can make with devs as a DBRE where the DB isn’t destroyed, and I don’t have to try to make them redesign huge swaths of their app.