diff --git a/draft-ietf-quic-recovery.md b/draft-ietf-quic-recovery.md index 0e771fcdd0..7958fc7ccd 100644 --- a/draft-ietf-quic-recovery.md +++ b/draft-ietf-quic-recovery.md @@ -130,9 +130,9 @@ In-flight packets: All transmissions in QUIC are sent with a packet-level header, which indicates the encryption level and includes a packet sequence number (referred to below as a packet number). The encryption level indicates the packet number space, as -described in {{QUIC-TRANSPORT}}. Packet numbers never repeat within a packet -number space for the lifetime of a connection. Packet numbers are sent in -monotonically increasing order within a space, preventing ambiguity. +described in Section 12.3 of {{QUIC-TRANSPORT}}. Packet numbers never repeat +within a packet number space for the lifetime of a connection. Packet numbers +are sent in monotonically increasing order within a space, preventing ambiguity. This design obviates the need for disambiguating between transmissions and retransmissions; this eliminates significant complexity from QUIC's