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janaiyengar committed Dec 12, 2018
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org: Mozilla
role: editor

informative:

FACK:
title: "Forward Acknowledgement: Refining TCP Congestion Control"
author:
- ins: M. Mathis
- ins: J. Mahdavi
date: 1996-08
seriesinfo: ACM SIGCOMM

--- abstract

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### Packet Threshold

The RECOMMENDED initial value for the packet reordering threshold
(kPacketThreshold) is 3, based on TCP loss detection {{?RFC5681}} {{?RFC6675}}.
(kPacketThreshold) is 3, based on best practices for TCP loss detection
{{?RFC5681}} {{?RFC6675}} {{FACK}}.

Some networks may exhibit higher degrees of reordering, causing a sender to
detect spurious losses. Implementers MAY use algorithms developed for TCP, such
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