@techreport{mayer-ioam-gob-01,
    number =    {draft-mayer-ioam-gob-01},
    type =      {Internet-Draft},
    institution =   {Internet Engineering Task Force},
    publisher = {Internet Engineering Task Force},
    note =      {Work in Progress},
    url =       {https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-mayer-ioam-gob/01/},
    author =    {Andrea Mayer and Stefano Salsano},
    title =     {{Global Opaque Block for IOAM Pre-allocated Trace Option}},
    pagetotal = 16,
    year =      2026,
    month =     mar,
    day =       18,
    abstract =  {Extensible metadata carried within the IOAM Pre-allocated Trace Option (PTO) can support packet-level, flow-level, or path-level processing beyond per-node trace data. This document defines the Global Opaque Block (GOB), an extension to the IOAM PTO that introduces a single pre-allocated global metadata region placed between the PTO fixed header and the node data list. The GOB carries an explicit length and schema identifier, preserves the pre-allocated PTO processing model, and can be used to transport Extensible In-band Processing (EIP) Information Elements or other structured metadata formats.},
}