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Re: [quicwg/base-drafts] Clarify ACK of ACKs and bundling a PING (#2794)

ianswett <notifications@github.com> Tue, 18 June 2019 14:27 UTC

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ianswett commented on this pull request.



> @@ -2883,16 +2884,21 @@ needing acknowledgement are received.  The sender can use the receiver's
 Strategies and implications of the frequency of generating acknowledgments are
 discussed in more detail in {{QUIC-RECOVERY}}.
 
+ACK-only packets are only sent in response to ACK-eliciting packets, so a
+receiver that is only sending ACK frames will only receive acknowledgements
+for its packets if the sender includes them in packets with non-ACK frames.

This section is the only use of ACK-eliciting, so I define it at the beginning of the section now.

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