[quicwg/base-drafts] Inconsistency between early timeout calculations (#3524)

Kazuho Oku <notifications@github.com> Sun, 15 March 2020 05:19 UTC

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For each connection, the loss detection timeout is defined as 2 * InitialRTT.

I wonder if this should be 3 * InitialRTT instead, because, once you have one RTT sample, PTO is calculated as 3 * InitialRTT.

I do not think we have a reason to believe that the variance of RTT (which applies as a multiplier here) increases when we obtain the first sample?

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