[quicwg/base-drafts] Define slow start and congestion avoidance (#3982)

Martin Thomson <notifications@github.com> Tue, 04 August 2020 22:44 UTC

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These are not very crisply defined currently.

The congestion controller starts in slow start.  Slow start is where the congestion window is less than the slow start threshold.  Congestion avoidance is where the congestion window is at least the slow start threshold.

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