https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc7232#section-2.3 for more information about ETags.
Compared to IamPolicy, NativeIamPolicy is a more future-proof solution - it gracefully tolerates changes in the underlying protocol. If IamPolicy is extended with additional fields in the future, NativeIamPolicy will preserve them (contrary to IamPolicy).
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