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Re: [quicwg/base-drafts] Should we allow ACK-only packets to be declared lost? (#3451)

Martin Thomson <notifications@github.com> Wed, 12 February 2020 05:06 UTC

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Subject: Re: [quicwg/base-drafts] Should we allow ACK-only packets to be declared lost? (#3451)
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I don't follow that argument.

There's a simpler one: if sending packets causes congestion such that loss (or ECN-CE marking) occurs, then ignoring that signal means that you will likely create more congestion.

I don't see how the relationship to inbound packets is relevant here.  There are many ways in which the rate of outbound packets might be determined by inbound packets.  Servers answers requests, after all.  And if ACK-only packets are the dominant use of a link, then deliberately ignoring signals from them likely only drives send rates up to unsustainable levels; and that's on top of not counting those packets toward limits (something that is necessary).

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