Barry Leiba's Transport Comment 3

[LPardue]

Barry Leiba said:

— Section 4 —

It is necessary to limit the amount of data that a receiver could
buffer, to prevent a fast sender from overwhelming a slow receiver,
or to prevent a malicious sender from consuming a large amount of
memory at a receiver.

You’re not talking about limiting the ability of the receiver (“could buffer”),
but limiting the potential buffering requirement on the client (“has to
buffer”), yes?

[martinthomson]

receiver/client is an invalid comparison here, so this is a bit of a confusing question. The point is to ensure that a receiver can limit what space it commits for buffering.