draft-mayer-ioam-gob
Global Opaque Block for IOAM Pre-allocated Trace Option
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.