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Updated recommendation
Updated recommendation to not stop and restart sending older ack blocks
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draft-ietf-quic-transport.md

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@@ -2432,7 +2432,10 @@ number of ACK blocks it sends. A receiver can do this even without receiving
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acknowledgment of its ACK frames, with the knowledge this could cause the sender
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to unnecessarily retransmit some data. When this is necessary, the receiver
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SHOULD acknowledge newly received packets and stop acknowledging packets
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received in the past.
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received in the past. Standard QUIC {{QUIC-RECOVERY}} algorithms declare
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packets lost after sufficiently newer packets are acknowledged. Therefore,
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receivers SHOULD NOT stop sending an ack block and then start sending it again
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substantially later in an effort to save bytes sent.
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### ACK Frames and Packet Protection
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