Re: [quicwg/base-drafts] Allow server to enforce post-Retry packet numbering (#3989)

Kazuho Oku <notifications@github.com> Tue, 11 August 2020 22:56 UTC

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I agree that it is unlikely that servers detecting this behavior would help MITM attackers. My concern was mostly from a consistency standpoint regarding what we write down in spec.

That said, I would not oppose to using a MAY here. It is already implied by the MUST NOT on the client-side, so to me it is an editorial change.

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