Re: comments on draft-ietf-tcpsat-stand-mech-04.txt

[Vern Paxson <[e-mail]>]

> For the larger initial window draft I did some back of the envelope
> analysis and a few quick simulations to try to make sure my thinking
> was correct.  When IW=4 we can always recover from a single lost
> segment with fast retransmit regardless of whether you are using
> delayed ACKs or ACK-every-segment.

Ah!, got it, thanks.

And (via private email) you've convinced me that ack-every doesn't
belong in the standard mechanisms document with the argument that
it's (basically) not existing practice.

Well, I had fun stirring up the pot. :-)

		Vern