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What about defining 'Stamped' versions of all the fields and composing a message containing only them? Values stamped with time 0 have never been set. This allows the client to decide at what age a value becomes invalid and still get access to older values if they join the party late.

I guess the frequency of publication will determine if the overhead is too much.

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