Re: [quicwg/base-drafts] Connection ID lengths 1, 2 and 3 bytes can't be encoded (#1570)

[ekr <[e-mail]>]

@janaiyengar: I'm not sure I disagree, but I feel uncomfortable going
against what I thought was consensus. Regrettably, I think a topic for NYC.

On Tue, Aug 7, 2018 at 12:40 PM, janaiyengar <[e-mail]>
wrote:

> @ekr <https://github.com/ekr> @martinthomson
> <https://github.com/martinthomson> : I think it's useful to have this
> degree of freedom for uses, for instance, where there's no migration, but
> only demultiplexing among a few connections. I understand the concern that
> having connection ID that's too small can lead to linkability, but I think
> there's a natural pushback here -- servers that use connection ID for
> demuxing will want to use a large CID because small ones are not enough, or
> they'll use no CID. The only place a small one becomes interesting is when
> (i) there are only a few connections being demuxed and (ii) where the bit
> cost matters. This is true in the p2p case, where I would argue that
> linkability is quite easy with just timing of packets.
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