Re: [quicwg/base-drafts] Gorry's ECN rewrite (#4059)

Jana Iyengar <notifications@github.com> Fri, 11 September 2020 00:17 UTC

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@janaiyengar commented on this pull request.



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-* If all packets that were sent with the ECT(0) codepoint are eventually deemed
-  lost (Section 6 of {{QUIC-RECOVERY}}), validation is deemed to have failed.
+If an endpoint has cause to expect that IP packets with an ECT codepoint might

"Pathological loss" isn't going to be good enough as a mechanism, and there's a rathole waiting there to define precisely what "pathological" means. We chose 10 packets based on the IW, and also because we wanted to start somewhere and then change the mechanism as we learned more through experience.

I suggest that we don't muddle this particular (large) PR with an additional, potentially-contentious discussion about a mechanism change.

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