Re: [quicwg/base-drafts] It seems the minimal packet number length should be 14 bits (#2955)

[Luo Kai <[e-mail]>]

> The sender MUST use a packet number size able to represent more than twice as large a range than the difference between the largest acknowledged packet and packet number being sent.

"The sender MUST use a packet number size able to represent more than twice as large a range than the difference between the largest acknowledged packet and packet number being sent." This does not make sense. In my example, the sender used 8 bits length firstly and when the sender found the 8 bits length is not enough for in flight packets, it began to use 16 bits length. The issue still exists. We can not predict how many packets will be sent by application for now. Once we have used 8 bits length, we can only send 127 packets in flight and wait for response, though the congestion control and stream control allows us to send more than 127 packets and we have more packets to be sent, we can not send one packet more until received ACK. Changing bits length from 8 to 16 at this moment does not resolve this issue. 


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