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Re: [quicwg/base-drafts] consider making the varint encoding unique (#2299)

ianswett <notifications@github.com> Sun, 06 January 2019 19:43 UTC

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Good point on long header packets.  I think we should consider changing the long header length to 2 byte lengths if we did this.

Given this is introducing churn and I'm not clear it's adding a lot of value, I'd say we shouldn't do this at the moment.

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