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

Kazuho Oku <notifications@github.com> Tue, 06 August 2019 06:52 UTC

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Subject: Re: [quicwg/base-drafts] It seems the minimal packet number length should be 14 bits (#2955)
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We already have a sentence that states when a packet number encoding of certain length can be used. Quoting [section 17.1](https://quicwg.org/base-drafts/draft-ietf-quic-transport.html#rfc.section.17.1): _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._

Therefore, I think that the only debate is if we need the 7-bit encoding. My preference goes to retaining it, because it would be useful in some cases, and because I do not think we have new information to reopen the issue.

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