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Re: [quicwg/base-drafts] don't allow 0 as a packet number (#832)

Nick Banks <notifications@github.com> Wed, 04 October 2017 14:10 UTC

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Subject: Re: [quicwg/base-drafts] don't allow 0 as a packet number (#832)
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If we really must have an invalid packet number I would also prefer 2^64-1, as that would never be initialized to, since we use 32 random bits, and we would essentially limit the maximum number allowed by 1. Really, no additional logic required.

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