Re: [quicwg/base-drafts] Placeholder limits make for awkward clients (#2734)

Lucas Pardue <notifications@github.com> Tue, 21 May 2019 12:17 UTC

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Subject: Re: [quicwg/base-drafts] Placeholder limits make for awkward clients (#2734)
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A server advertises a limit it should be able to fulfill that entire limit. For example, by reserving the capacity - even if the structures are not explicitly allocated. A naive implementation that advertises a large limit (like MAX_INT) and fails to reserve capacity shouldn't get surprised if things go bad when a client comes along and attempts to prioritise MAX_INT placeholders...   

This is mostly an implementation detail.

The real points that we should focus on are on understanding if the limit unilaterally set by the server is the right approach given the way people might want to use placeholders.

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