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Fix some of the nits in #3214 #4016

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Expand Up @@ -3845,6 +3845,10 @@ congestion in the network by setting a codepoint in the IP header of a packet
instead of dropping it. Endpoints react to congestion by reducing their sending
rate in response, as described in {{QUIC-RECOVERY}}.

Note that supporting ECN requires being able to set and read the ECN codepoints
from the IP headers of packets carrying QUIC. On platforms where this is not
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possible, QUIC cannot support ECN.
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To use ECN, QUIC endpoints first determine whether a path supports ECN marking
and the peer is able to access the ECN codepoint in the IP header. A network
path does not support ECN if ECN marked packets get dropped or ECN markings are
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