[quicwg/base-drafts] Explain reason for having connection limits (#796)

Dmitri Tikhonov <notifications@github.com> Tue, 26 September 2017 03:01 UTC

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Subject: [quicwg/base-drafts] Explain reason for having connection limits (#796)
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The lifetime of a connection and the amount of data that can be transferred thereon are limited because the packet numbers, connection byte offsets, and stream byte offsets all have maximum values.  The draft should address the reason(s) why there are maximum values at all.

I raised this issue on the mailing list twice, but received no answers:

https://www.ietf.org/mail-archive/web/quic/current/msg02144.html
https://www.ietf.org/mail-archive/web/quic/current/msg02251.html


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