Re: [quicwg/base-drafts] OnPacketsLost for Nonretransmittable Packets (#2015)

ianswett <notifications@github.com> Tue, 20 November 2018 18:20 UTC

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Subject: Re: [quicwg/base-drafts] OnPacketsLost for Nonretransmittable Packets (#2015)
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This was chosen as an effort to be similar to TCP, which does not consider loss of ACK-only packets as a congestion event.  

As @mikkelfj pointed out, ACK-only packets don't count towards bytes in flight, so it seems odd to me to consider the loss of them a congestion event.

I can imagine changing this, but if in doubt, I think adhering closely to what TCP does makes sense.

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