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Send an immediate ACK #2025

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5 changes: 3 additions & 2 deletions draft-ietf-quic-recovery.md
Expand Up @@ -228,8 +228,9 @@ an ACK immediately when receiving a second ack-eliciting packet.
In order to accelerate loss recovery and reduce timeouts, the receiver SHOULD
send an immediate ACK when it receives a new packet which is not one greater
than the largest received packet number. A receiver MAY send immediate ACKs
for the next few ack-eliciting packets that are received, but not for more
than 1/8 RTT after receiving the out-of-order packet.
for the next few ack-eliciting packets that are received, but SHOULD not
send an immediate ACK for more than 1/8 RTT after receiving an out-of-order
packet.

Similarly, packets marked with the ECN Congestion Experienced (CE) codepoint in
the IP header SHOULD be acknowledged immediately, to reduce the peer's response
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