Re: [quicwg/base-drafts] Attempt to make the stateless reset text better (#3007)

[ianswett <[e-mail]>]

ianswett approved this pull request.



> -packet protection AEAD.  More unpredictable bytes might be necessary if the
-endpoint could have negotiated a packet protection scheme with a larger minimum
-AEAD expansion.
-
-An endpoint SHOULD NOT send a stateless reset that is significantly larger than
-the packet it receives.  Endpoints MUST discard packets that are too small to be
-valid QUIC packets.  With the set of AEAD functions defined in {{QUIC-TLS}},
-packets that are smaller than 21 bytes are never valid.
+To entities other than its intended recipient, a stateless reset will appear to
+be a packet with a short header.  For the stateless reset to appear as a valid
+QUIC packet, the Unpredictable Bits field needs to include at least 38 bits of
+data (or 6 bytes, less the two fixed bits).
+
+A minimum size of 21 bytes does not guarantee that a stateless reset is
+difficult to distinguish from other packets if the recipient requires the use of
+a connection ID.  In order to ensure that a stateless reset that appears to be

This second sentence is hard to follow.  How about "To prevent a resulting stateless reset from being distinguished from a valid packet, all packets ..."

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