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Contextualizing my question, kind of by convention of my old work environment I always recorded the records without the mask at the base, but a situation arose in my new job where they are saving the records with the mask.
As far as I know the "correct" is to save without the mask, but I have no arguments to justify my point, what I would like are justifications of why the records should be saved this way in the bank.
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There are arguments for both sides. I particularly think the correct thing is without the mask because the mask is usually just a visual presentation of the data, it is not part of the data, the mask is something foreign to the data, so conceptually it would be wrong to use it. I always prefer to adopt what is conceptually correct because it tends to give less problems in the future.
Of course, it’s not worth it if the mask is part of the data, if there’s no standardization or anything like that. A RG can not have mask, it varies for each state, time and other things, on the other hand people will probably fill with mask. How he’s just descriptive doesn’t matter much.
The main argument for using it in data is that it can simplify programming in some cases. Depending on the technology used may have to prepare the die with the mask before using it or after receiving it.
One argument not to use is that the mask can change a day and create complications to adapt the dice.
In the past there was the argument that without the mask saves space, today this is usually irrelevant.
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