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

Dmitri Tikhonov <notifications@github.com> Wed, 27 September 2017 10:00 UTC

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> The answer was: because those various numbers have maximums. That is in the draft.

@martinthomson, the fact that a number representation has a maximum not cause TCP to abort a connection after 2^32 bytes have been sent.  I think the reason must be something else.

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