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Re: [quicwg/base-drafts] varint packet numbers (#989)

Brian Trammell <notifications@github.com> Thu, 03 May 2018 11:22 UTC

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> That leads me to suggest that we at least consider: 0 followed by 7 bits; 10 followed by 14 bits; and 11 followed by 30 bits. 

Since the parser needs to be bespoke *anyway*, and there are indeed situations in which a 7 bit packet number is twice as useful as a six-bit one, I can write this up and we can have something concrete to argue about.

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