One 128-bit value, eight useful forms
Canonical, uppercase, braces, URN, compact hexadecimal, unsigned integer, Base64, and Base64URL are presented as equivalent encodings of the same 16 bytes, with integer/Base64 round-trip verification.
RFC 9562 boundary
UUIDs are 128-bit values. Version meaning is interpreted only inside the appropriate variant, and representation conversion never changes the underlying 16 bytes.