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Re:New UUID Formats – IETF Draft by TheCoelacanth on Saturday August 07, 2021 @12:58PM (#28100047)
The other versions all have use cases other than avoiding collisions.

If your access patterns are such that you often access ids generated around the same time together v6-8 will probably be faster due to locality. If you access data generated on the same node together, than same for v1-2.

If you want a reproducible id based on some other identifier, then only v3 and v5 will work.

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