Re: [quicwg/base-drafts] Allow connections to share a port by adding restrictions on zero-length connection IDs (#2851)

[David Schinazi <[e-mail]>]

DavidSchinazi commented on this pull request.



> @@ -924,11 +924,19 @@ selected by the client, both to ensure correct routing toward the client and to
 allow the client to validate that the packet is in response to an Initial
 packet.
 
-A zero-length connection ID MAY be used when the connection ID is not needed for
-routing and the address/port tuple of packets is sufficient to identify a
-connection. An endpoint whose peer has selected a zero-length connection ID MUST
-continue to use a zero-length connection ID for the lifetime of the connection
-and MUST NOT send packets from any other local address.
+A zero-length connection ID can be used when a connection ID is not needed
+to route to the correct endpoint. An endpoint SHOULD NOT use a zero-length
+connection ID unless it can use only its IP address and port to identify a
+connection. The IP address and port used by a peer cannot be used for routing
+or connection identification as these values can change during a connection's
+lifetime, and the peer can reuse a given address and port for additional
+connections. Similarly, the peer's connection IDs cannot be used for routing
+or identification, as they are not transmitted in the short header packets
+they send. Note that multiplexing while using zero-length connection IDs and

Swapped that around to remove the redundancy

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