Re: enumerate packets not to ack?

Martin Thomson <martin.thomson@gmail.com> Thu, 01 June 2017 09:24 UTC

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From: Martin Thomson <martin.thomson@gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 01 Jun 2017 19:24:51 +1000
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Subject: Re: enumerate packets not to ack?
To: Mirja Kühlewind <mirja.kuehlewind@tik.ee.ethz.ch>
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On 1 June 2017 at 17:47, Mirja Kühlewind
<mirja.kuehlewind@tik.ee.ethz.ch> wrote:
> These are actually to different things. One is that you should not
> send/generate an ack frame just because you received an ack frame but no
> other data. The other point is that you actually can't really ack server
> retry or version negotiation because they don't have a valid packet number.


That might be better framing.  On the issue, I suggested that we
instead concentrate on describing what mechanisms we use to ensure
reliability.  I'm not sure that I got that right either, of course.