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Re: [quicwg/base-drafts] Asymmetry in the handling of SETTINGS frame (#1846)

Dmitri Tikhonov <notifications@github.com> Wed, 10 October 2018 13:08 UTC

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@LPardue writes:
> I've been operating under an assumption that a QUIC transport acknowledgement is equivalent to a SETTINGS_ACK but I'm now not sure that is true; the application layer may still not have processed the received SETTINGS.

Theoretically, because the SETTINGS frame is a _stream_ frame, not a QUIC frame, the receipt of a packet carrying a SETTINGS frame does not mean that the stream is readable.  This is because the stream type `C` may be in a different packet from the SETTINGS frame.

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