Re: [quicwg/base-drafts] Do we need to define a maximum packet size? (#383)

Aron-Schats <notifications@github.com> Fri, 10 March 2017 21:32 UTC

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Why mandate a minimum size at all?  I think it should be up to the server.  If the server is waiting to accept packets carrying just 10 bytes (for example) of stream data payload, so be it.  Certainly it is not a good idea for a web server on the Internet as it would take hundreds of packets to complete a handshake, but who knows how someone would want to use QUIC?

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