Skip to content
New issue

Have a question about this project? Sign up for a free GitHub account to open an issue and contact its maintainers and the community.

By clicking “Sign up for GitHub”, you agree to our terms of service and privacy statement. We’ll occasionally send you account related emails.

Already on GitHub? Sign in to your account

Retry MUST NOT -> cannot be treated as an acknowledgement #3171

Merged
merged 4 commits into from
Oct 31, 2019
Merged
Changes from all commits
Commits
File filter

Filter by extension

Filter by extension

Conversations
Failed to load comments.
Loading
Jump to
Jump to file
Failed to load files.
Loading
Diff view
Diff view
5 changes: 3 additions & 2 deletions draft-ietf-quic-recovery.md
Original file line number Diff line number Diff line change
Expand Up @@ -575,8 +575,9 @@ dictated by packet and time threshold mechanisms; see {{ack-loss-detection}}.

A Retry packet causes a client to send another Initial packet, effectively
restarting the connection process. A Retry packet indicates that the Initial
was received, but not processed. A Retry packet MUST NOT be treated as an
acknowledgment.
was received, but not processed. A Retry packet cannot be treated as an
acknowledgment, because it does not indicate that a packet was processed or
specify the packet number.

Clients that receive a Retry packet reset congestion control and loss recovery
state, including resetting any pending timers. Other connection state, in
Expand Down