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Re: [quicwg/base-drafts] Optional packet length field in the short header? (#1831)

MikkelFJ <notifications@github.com> Thu, 04 October 2018 06:30 UTC

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If you do that, you should also consider it in the context of transports other than UDP. I.e. ensure that the context ID (there, I said it, it is not a connection ID) is sufficient over header less transports such as a RS232 bus.

As to coalescing just for the sake of coalescing, I think it will just complicate things. As soon as you have short headers, you can do all sorts of optimizations with packet delivery and processing, but if you must also deal with coalescing at this level, it complicates things, so there need to be a good reason for that.

I'm not sure why coalescing would be useful for its own sake, over a UDP transport.

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