Re: [quicwg/base-drafts] First octet changes (#2006)

[David Schinazi <[e-mail]>]

DavidSchinazi commented on this pull request.



> -including only a variable number of the least significant bits of the packet
-number.  One or two of the most significant bits of the first byte are then used
-to represent how many bits of the packet number are provided, as shown in
-{{pn-encodings}}.
-
-| First byte pattern | Encoded Length | Bits Present |
-|:-------------------|:---------------|:-------------|
-| 0b0xxxxxxx         | 1 byte         | 7            |
-| 0b10xxxxxx         | 2              | 14           |
-| 0b11xxxxxx         | 4              | 30           |
-{: #pn-encodings title="Packet Number Encodings for Packet Headers"}
-
-Note that these encodings are similar to those in {{integer-encoding}}, but
-use different values.
+Packet numbers in long and short packet headers are encoded on 1 to 4 octets.
+The number of bits required to represent the packet number reduced by including

Reading further down I'm actually understanding the meaning now - perhaps we could rephrase to something like: "Since we have information about which previous packet numbers have been acknowledged, it is possible to only send some of the least significant bits of the packet number when they are sufficient to reconstruct the full packet number unambiguously."

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