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@@ -137,8 +137,6 @@ ID for the publisher, and `les-miserables` is the resource ID for the book.
   - Characters outside of ASCII **should not** be permitted; however, if
     Unicode characters are necessary, APIs **must** follow guidance in
     [AIP-210][].
-  - User-specified IDs **should not** be permitted to be a UUID (or any value
-    that syntactically appears to be a UUID).
 - If resource IDs are not user-settable, the API **should** document the
   basic format, and any upper boundaries (for example, "at most 63
   characters").
@@ -400,8 +398,24 @@ preventing resource data duplication, and forcing the owning service to be
 involved in the resolution of the reference (via Standard Methods), guaranteeing
 isolation of logical concerns per-resource.
 
+## History
+
+### Disallowing UUIDs in user-specified IDs
+
+As part of an effort to make APIs more declarative-friendly, APIs were required
+to allow user-specified resource ID on creation. As part of this, a supporting
+field `string uid` containing a UUID was also encouraged. Guidance was then
+added to discourage the _user-specified resource ID_ from being a UUID or
+even resembling one.
+
+Ostensibly, the fact that `uid` contained a service-generated UUID motivated
+this restriction on the user-specified resource ID, forcing the user-specified
+resource ID to be a more "meaningful" value. However, we no longer saw value in
+this requirement, hence its removal.
+
 ## Changelog
 
+- **2025-03-10**: Drop guidance disallowing UUID in user-specified ID.
 - **2024-10-15**: Add some rationale we found for use of `name` as a field and
   instead of IDs as an identifier.
 - **2024-06-14**: Clarify resource annotation shortening rules for nested