Unfortunately this would be very frustrating for customers and result in a lot of damaged material and incomplete cuts, since material settings are very different from material vendor to vendor. People would reasonably conclude that Glowforge material detection doesn’t work and Glowforge units are unreliable.
This is the same reason that we will not make Proofgrade presets available to non-Proofgrade materials; it will lead to poor results, and we will be responsible for it.
As noted, it’s “Glowforge”, then a unique identifier. Right now they’re generated in batches so they’re sequential, but in the future they will be essentially serial numbers. This allows us to track the material from the factory all the way through to your Glowforge, so besides helping our logistics, in the future we can do things like update Proofgrade defaults (for example if we update the 3D engraving algorithm), or warn you if your material has been recalled.
We don’t encode the settings, since they may change.