Re: [quicwg/base-drafts] ACK generation recommendation (#3304)

[Gorry Fairhurst <[e-mail]>]

I like ACK every 10 (after the initial 100 received packets) as the basic recommendation. This is consistent with the idea that a sender can release packets in 10's (IW) ... and for rates of 10's -100's Mbps this provides a significant benefit in the case we looked at in terms of not being limited by paths that have asymmetry (it also helps with CPU usage) - which is where we arrived at in our PANRG talk. For example, without this the satellite broadband systems we work perform significantly worse than currently. Many networks have deployed ways to do this for TCP, and it's important we don't make experience with QUIC much worse than it needs to be on the paths that care about this.

At higher rates, you may well benefit from doing more - especially to reduce endpoint processing -  but I think that such larger changes (e.g., to 1/4 RTT) do interact with the CC and that level of change requires a lot more thought - because it interacts with other mechanisms.

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