Re: [quicwg/base-drafts] Minor update to Persistent Congestion (#4414)

Jana Iyengar <notifications@github.com> Wed, 02 December 2020 00:27 UTC

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This is good. The problem with non-ack-eliciting packets is that a sender cannot infer anything about network conditions when it isn't expecting an ack. Meaning that the receiver could have received everything and simply not responded if none of those packets are ack-eliciting.

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