Re: [quicwg/base-drafts] Spin per peer (#1982)

[Christian Huitema <[e-mail]>]

huitema commented on this pull request.



> @@ -235,11 +235,19 @@ Implementations SHOULD allow administrators of clients and servers to disable
 the spin bit either globally or on a per-connection basis.
 Even when the spin bit is not disabled by the administrator implementations
 SHOULD disable the spin bit on a randomly chosen
-fraction of connections.  The selection process should be designed such that
-on average the spin bit is disabled for at least 1/8th of the connections.
-
-When the spin bit is disabled, endpoints SHOULD set the spin bit value to zero,
-regardless of the values received from their peer. Addendums or revisions to
+fraction of connections.
+
+The selection process SHOULD be designed such that
+on average the spin bit is disabled for at least one eighth of network paths.
+The random choice SHOULD be dependent
+on the source and destination addresses of the path,
+so that the spin bit is consistently enabled or
+disabled for repeated use of the same path.

I replaced the random selection text by EKR's suggestion, and added a clarification that the choice is done once per connection.

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