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Editorial recovery fixes #1551

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4 changes: 2 additions & 2 deletions draft-ietf-quic-recovery.md
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Expand Up @@ -247,7 +247,7 @@ retransmittable packets are not acknowledged during this time, then these
packets MUST be marked as lost.

An endpoint SHOULD set the alarm such that a packet is marked as lost no earlier
than 1.125 * max(SRTT, latest_RTT) since when it was sent.
than 1.25 * max(SRTT, latest_RTT) since when it was sent.

Using max(SRTT, latest_RTT) protects from the two following cases:

Expand All @@ -258,7 +258,7 @@ Using max(SRTT, latest_RTT) protects from the two following cases:
* the latest RTT sample is higher than the SRTT, perhaps due to a sustained
increase in the actual RTT, but the smoothed SRTT has not yet caught up.

The 1.125 multiplier increases reordering resilience. Implementers MAY experiment
The 1.25 multiplier increases reordering resilience. Implementers MAY experiment
with using other multipliers, bearing in mind that a lower multiplier reduces
reordering resilience and increases spurious retransmissions, and a higher
multipler increases loss recovery delay.
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