Re: [pointerevents] Multi-pen support and persistent pointerId (#353)

Great to see the revived interest here!  I agree with @RByers and @patrickhlauke re the WICG path until we are done with L3.

Let me bring back an old question from @bmathwig above, which I didn't get a chance to comment before:

> Do you think there is a backwards compatibility risk by doing it this way? Is there a case where someone would take a dependency on a "new-ID-per-event" system for creating unique SVG strokes?

We don't know any use-case like this, and therefore re-purposing `pointerId` (as per the original proposal here) sounds like an equally acceptable solution to me.  As @patrickhlauke mentioned, the "MAY" in the current spec would allow this already.  Moreover, this could be interpreted as a generalization of the (existing) constant `pointerId` of mouse.  Let's discuss this in the WICG repo.

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