[tcpm] Add handling of spurious losses in Cubic RFC update

Christian Huitema <huitema@huitema.net> Fri, 20 November 2020 22:01 UTC

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Subject: [tcpm] Add handling of spurious losses in Cubic RFC update
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I just opened an issue in the Github depot: 
https://github.com/NTAP/rfc8312bis/issues/23

Adding handling of spurious losses in Cubic is not very hard: basically, 
reset the epoch parameters to what they would be if there was no loss. 
It would be good if that was documented in the revised RFC.

-- Christian Huitema