Re: nits in draft-ietf-quic-recovery-05

Jana Iyengar <jri@google.com> Fri, 15 September 2017 01:00 UTC

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From: Jana Iyengar <jri@google.com>
Date: Thu, 14 Sep 2017 18:00:09 -0700
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Subject: Re: nits in draft-ietf-quic-recovery-05
To: Christian Huitema <huitema@huitema.net>
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Christian -- yes, the overview needs rework. I'll try to do a rewrite
before the next set of drafts comes out.

On Mon, Sep 11, 2017 at 6:09 PM, Christian Huitema <huitema@huitema.net>
wrote:

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> On 9/11/2017 2:41 PM, Jana Iyengar wrote:
> >
> > Oh, right, I missed that. Thanks for clarifying, I'll fix it (change
> > to "marks a packet as lost when a packet with a larger packet number
> > is acknowledged.")
>
> Except that's not true, because that simple statement does not take into
> account possible out of order deliveries. Indeed, the overview says: "A
> packet is marked as lost if at least one packet that was sent a
> threshold number of packets (kReorderingThreshold) after it has been
> acknowledged." But the overview is not correct either, because it does
> not consider time. A packet could still be marked as lost if
> "time_reordering_fraction + kDelayedAckTimeout" has elapsed since
> receiving an acknowledgement of a packet with a larger number.
>
> --
> Christian Huitema
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