Re: [quicwg/base-drafts] NEW_TOKEN should be symmetric (#2760)

[Marten Seemann <[e-mail]>]

> While I can understand the desire, I am wary of the complexity that it might introduce. I am not sure if we could consider (and continue to consider) the use-case during the development and the maintenance of the protocol.

I don't think there's a lot of complexity here. The token is literally just an opaque blob which is transferred on one connection and reused on another connection. All the complexity of issuing, encrypting, validating and using the tokens is born by the implementations, and if p2p isn't your use case, you don't need to do anything.

> The only case you'd benefit a round trip from using a NEW_TOKEN token is when you can do 0-RTT. However, 0-RTT can only be used when a connection in the same direction has been established before. 

There are two benefits here, that apply even if you don't do 0-RTT:

1. You save one round-trip for address validation.
2. You can encode additional information into the token. For example, an implementation could encode the RTT of the old connection into the token, and use that as an initial estimate when establishing a new connection.

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