cloudflare / cloudflare/quiche

feature: Customizable client-side connection id and non-20-byte connection id support for shorter connection id for smaller overhead

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Description

This issue is technically consists of two features, but targeting single problem so writing as single issue.

I'm planned to use quiche with unreliable extension for real-time communication and want to reduce packet size overhead.
Therefore I want to use shorter connection id for client side (and reject longer in on_conn_established).

However, currently tokio-quiche doesn't support changing length of connection id in `InboundPacketRouter` and doesn't allow specifying scid or cid generator.

Therefore I want to add support changing length of connection id to tokio-quiche.

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Research direction

Start by reading tokio-quiche's InboundPacketRouter and the on_conn_established path to understand where connection ID lengths and generators are selected. Define how client-side IDs can use a configurable shorter length, how custom SCIDs or CID generators are supplied, and how longer IDs are rejected; done means both behaviors work for the unreliable-extension use case.

Written by the indexing model from the issue text.

Assessment

Tech stack
rust
Domain
networking
Issue type
Feature
Difficulty
5/5
Estimated time
Over a week
Activity status
Quiet
Clarity
Mostly clear
Newbie friendliness
35/100

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