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[quicwg/base-drafts] Advice on STOP_WAITING (#57)

Martin Thomson <notifications@github.com> Thu, 01 December 2016 23:29 UTC

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Martin Duke observes that until STOP_WAITING is acknowledged, you can't assume that it has had an effect.  This means that anything that depends on the number of "in flight" packets can't assume that packets before the Last Unacked packet aren't still considered as in transit by the receiver of the STOP_WAITING.  This is particularly relevant for determining how many bits to allocate to packet numbers.

We might just provide advice here, but I've marked this as design so that we can discuss it.

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