%% You should probably cite draft-iurman-6man-carry-identifier instead of this I-D. @techreport{iurman-6man-generic-id-00, number = {draft-iurman-6man-generic-id-00}, type = {Internet-Draft}, institution = {Internet Engineering Task Force}, publisher = {Internet Engineering Task Force}, note = {Work in Progress}, url = {https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-iurman-6man-generic-id/00/}, author = {Justin Iurman}, title = {{Carrying a Generic Identifier in IPv6 packets}}, pagetotal = 7, year = 2022, month = aug, day = 6, abstract = {Some recent use cases seem to have a need for carrying IDs within packets. Two examples are \_I-D.draft-ietf-6man-enhanced-vpn-vtn-id\_ and \_I-D.draft-li-6man-topology-id\_. While they might perfectly make sense on their own, each document requires IANA to allocate a new code point for a new option, which could quickly exhaust the allocation space if similar designs are proposed in the future. As an example, one might need an 8-bit ID, while another one might need a 24-bit, 32-bit, or 64-bit ID. Or, even worse, one might need a 32-bit ID in a specific context, while someone else might also need a 32-bit ID in another context. Therefore, allocating a new code point for each similar option is probably not the way to go.}, }