Re: [quicwg/base-drafts] Clarify client anti-amplification response (#3445)

[Martin Thomson <[e-mail]>]

martinthomson commented on this pull request.



> -handshake deadlock, clients MUST send a packet upon a probe timeout, as
-described in {{QUIC-RECOVERY}}. If the client has no data to retransmit and does
-not have Handshake keys, it MUST send an Initial packet in a UDP datagram of
-at least 1200 bytes.  If the client has Handshake keys, it SHOULD send a
-Handshake packet.
+Loss of an Initial or Handshake packet from the server can cause a deadlock if
+the client does not send additional Initial or Handshake packets.  The server
+can reach its anti-amplification limit, but if the client has received
+acknowledgements for all the data is has sent, it has no reason to send more
+packets. In this case, where the client would otherwise not send any
+additional packets, the server will be unable to send because it has not
+received enough from the client or validated the clients address. To prevent
+this deadlock, clients MUST send a packet on a probe timeout, or PTO;
+see Section 5.3 of {{QUIC-RECOVERY}}. In this case, the client MUST send an
+Initial packet in a UDP datagram of at least 1200 bytes if it does not have
+Handshake keys, and otherwise send a Handshake packet.
 

It seems to me that this doesn't matter.  Probing generally goes for ack-eliciting, and some might favour sending data over just a PING, but if the server only needs more bytes, it shouldn't matter if this is PADDING, PING, or CRYPTO. 

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