Re: [quicwg/base-drafts] MUST pace or limit bursts to 10 packets (#3106)

[ianswett <[e-mail]>]

ianswett commented on this pull request.



> @@ -753,6 +753,12 @@ delivery of ACK frames is important for efficient loss recovery. Packets
 containing only ACK frames should therefore not be paced, to avoid delaying
 their delivery to the peer.
 
+Sending multiple packets into the network without any delay between them
+creates a packet burst that might cause short-term congestion and losses.
+Implementations MUST either use pacing or limit such bursts to minimum
+of 10 * kMaxDatagramSize and max(2* kMaxDatagramSize, 14720)), the same
+as the recommended initial congestion window.
+

That's a good point.  We could swap the sentence and say "same as the initial congestion window, which is recommended to be ..." if you think it's preferable.  But I'm also not sure it matters much.

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