Re: [quicwg/base-drafts] Clarify section on negotiating connection IDs (#3349)

[Martin Thomson <[e-mail]>]

martinthomson approved this pull request.



>  
 When an Initial packet is sent by a client that has not previously received an
-Initial or Retry packet from the server, the client populates the DCID field
-with an unpredictable value.  This DCID MUST be at least 8 bytes in length.
-Until a packet is received from the server, the client MUST use the same DCID
-value on all packets in this connection. This DCID is used to determine packet
+Initial or Retry packet from the server, the client populates the Destination
+Connection ID field with an unpredictable value.  This Destination Connection ID

That is below.

> -producing different connection IDs.
-
-The connection ID can change over the lifetime of a connection, especially in
-response to connection migration ({{migration}}); see {{issue-cid}} for details.
+for subsequent packets, including all subsequent 0-RTT packets.  This means that
+a client might have to change the connection ID it sets in the Destination
+Connection ID field twice during connection establishment: once in response to a
+Retry, and once in response to an Initial packet from the server. Once a client
+has received an Initial packet from the server, it MUST discard any subsequent
+packet it receives with a different Source Connection ID.
+
+A client MUST change the Destination Connection ID it uses for sending packets
+in response to only the first received Initial or Retry packet.  A server MUST
+set the Destination Connection ID it uses for sending packets based on the first
+received Initial packet. Any further changes to the Destination Connection ID
+are are only permitted if the values are taken from any received

```suggestion
are only permitted if the values are taken from any received
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