Re: [tcpm] draft-ietf-tcpm-hystartplusplus and QUIC

Lars Eggert <lars@eggert.org> Tue, 20 September 2022 06:03 UTC

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Subject: Re: [tcpm] draft-ietf-tcpm-hystartplusplus and QUIC
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On Sep 20, 2022, at 01:08, Michael Tuexen <Michael.Tuexen@lurchi.franken.de> wrote:
> 
> However, most
> of the specs use a language specific to one transport protocol but you can easily
> translate them to the other. So there is some transfer to be made by the reader.

I think that asking the reader to make that transfer is extra work and a potential source of ambiguities and errors. In the past, one could assume that everyone was deeply familiar with TCP, since that was by far the dominant protocol, but that situation is changing.

Lars

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