Treat incoming ChannelIDs as opaque strings

[jrconlin]

While the channelID is originally designed to be a UUID, the User Agent demands that the ChannelID be a very specific format, a lower-case, hyphenated string. Since the server does not generate or control this value, we should treat the value as an opaque string that is max 37 characters.

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