[tcpm] Tarr draft - one very minor comment
Gorry Fairhurst <gorry@erg.abdn.ac.uk> Mon, 18 March 2024 06:08 UTC
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From: Gorry Fairhurst <gorry@erg.abdn.ac.uk>
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Subject: [tcpm] Tarr draft - one very minor comment
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The following could be a rather unfortunate in the use of "may" (which may sometimes be thought of as allowed), and extremely editorial:
Therefore, time-based packet loss
detection may either be unnecessarily delayed or it may produce
spurious retransmissions.
Perhaps you could consider writing:
Therefore, time-based packet loss
detection could either unnecessarily delay ACKs or could result in
spurious retransmissions.
Gorry
- [tcpm] Tarr draft - one very minor comment Gorry Fairhurst
- Re: [tcpm] Tarr draft - one very minor comment Carles Gomez Montenegro