Advantages of this format are labels can be any non-negative integer value, they do not need to be consecutive. It also means the label is stored as an integer not a stringified-integer, and it supports future extensibility for another color model if necessary.
Alternative proposal to https://github.com/ome/omero-ms-zarr/pull/65
Each item has the format
Items are in order of ascending label value
Advantages of this format are labels can be any non-negative integer value, they do not need to be consecutive. It also means the label is stored as an integer not a stringified-integer, and it supports future extensibility for another color model if necessary.