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Allow alternate restarts after idle #2187
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## Sending data after an idle period | ||||||
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A sender is considered idle if it has no bytes in flight. A sender can become | ||||||
idle when it is application limited and has no data to send, or when it marks | ||||||
packets as lost (and therefore not in flight). | ||||||
A sender becomes idle if it has no bytes in flight. A sender can become idle | ||||||
when it is application limited and has no data to send, or when it marks packets | ||||||
as lost (and therefore not in flight). | ||||||
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There was a problem hiding this comment. Choose a reason for hiding this commentThe reason will be displayed to describe this comment to others. Learn more. Can this also happen when all packets are acknowledged? I'm not sure what the preferred behavior is in that case. But the current text now properly captures the "my last PTO was acked and everything else was declared lost." There was a problem hiding this comment. Choose a reason for hiding this commentThe reason will be displayed to describe this comment to others. Learn more. Yes, that is a fine case ... this is what we've always had, the RTO text was incorrect. Basically the sender goes idle as soon as bytes in flight goes to 0. Maybe that's all we need to say. I've removed more text to make this clearer. |
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A sender's congestion window MUST not increase while it is idle. | ||||||
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