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Why does the spec need updating? As far as I can tell it's finished. Maybe your concern is a little irrational?

(fyi, I am very happy user of ULID for years, I don't need libraries to be updated to keep using it)

I am wanting UUIDv7 but I can use ULID right now.

I'm not sure about parent's problem, but ULID spec has problems like "monotonic ID" which is just a counter, entirely breaking the universal thing.

From my experience this is only triggered when generating something like a thousand IDs a second (or more?), something I never run into in the systems I work on.

Since _every_ system has a down side or limitation, I am perfectly happy with ULID's flaws.

Why should there be disdain or dismissal of a system that solves many people's problems?

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