Re: [quicwg/base-drafts] QPACK [editorial] update RIC and Base on figures (#2935)

[Bence Béky <[e-mail]>]

Only the author of this PR and editors of the spec ever commented on this editorial issue.  This indicates to me that this issue is insignificant.  I encourage any of the editors to just make a decision on where Base should point or if it should appear on the drawing at all.  I'm happy to implement that so that we can cross this PR off the list.

If the decision is that Base should point between two elements, or that it should be removed from the drawing, then I suggest adding text specifying that Base = n-2.

By the way it just occurred to me that RIC does not belong to this diagram at all.  In fact it is possible that a header block does not reference the most recently inserted element, in which case RIC has a different value than currently indicated.

In my mental model Base is neither an index nor a count.  It is an integer that the encoder sends to the decoder, which is then used for arithmetics described in the spec to convert between absolute and relative indices.  I'm not convinced that renaming it to Base Count would increase clarity.



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