At the moment we've only allocated a byte for DP mechanism identifiers. For VDAFs we've allocated four bytes. It doesn't seem out of the question to me that we end up with more than 256 DP mechanisms.
I doubt we'll have that many varieties of differential privacy. However, I think it's fine to align with VDAF, extra 3 bytes should have no perf impact.
At the moment we've only allocated a byte for DP mechanism identifiers. For VDAFs we've allocated four bytes. It doesn't seem out of the question to me that we end up with more than 256 DP mechanisms.