Re: comments on draft-ietf-tcpsat-stand-mech-04.txt

From: Vern Paxson ([email protected])
Date: Mon Jun 22 1998 - 08:14:11 EDT


> For the larger initial window draft I did some back of the envelope
> analysis and a few quick simulations to try to make sure my thinking
> was correct. When IW=4 we can always recover from a single lost
> segment with fast retransmit regardless of whether you are using
> delayed ACKs or ACK-every-segment.

Ah!, got it, thanks.

And (via private email) you've convinced me that ack-every doesn't
belong in the standard mechanisms document with the argument that
it's (basically) not existing practice.

Well, I had fun stirring up the pot. :-)

                Vern



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