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Re: [quicwg/base-drafts] Make transport parameter ID and length varint (#3294)

Ryan Hamilton <notifications@github.com> Wed, 11 December 2019 15:28 UTC

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Subject: Re: [quicwg/base-drafts] Make transport parameter ID and length varint (#3294)
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I heartily agree with what @nibanks wrote. QUIC reads and writes TP and when QUIC reads and writes integers, varints are the way to go (as evidences by TPs with varint values). Using varints here is more consistent with the rest of QUIC code and is simpler.

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