Verification of RTO no longer necessary #2168
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The changes to loss recovery in #1974 allow for some simplification in RTO response. The recovery draft says about an ACK after an RTO (in Section 5.3.3):
If the ACK acknowledges only packets sent after an RTO, everything sent earlier is marked lost. With time-threshold loss detection in #1974, that is exactly what standard loss detection will do. As a result, in both the conditions described in the text quoted above, standard loss detection does the right thing.
We can remove the two cases (remove OnRetransmissionTimeoutVerified) and always simply use standard loss detection when an ACK is received.
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