Subject: Re: [quicwg/base-drafts] Two paras are quite confusing (#4271)

From: Benjamin Saunders <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 06 Jul 2021 19:50:32 -0700

I found this to still be very confusing, FWIW. It's unclear why the limit would be 1200 bytes when the text very clearly explains that at least 1232 can be relied upon, or alternatively why the text claims "QUIC assumes a minimum IP packet size of at least 1280 bytes." when in fact it appears to only mandate a 32 bytes smaller figure. It reads like someone forgot to update a constant.

@martinthomson above suggests that this was intentional, to leave space for unspecified future use by lower layers. I think *some* allusion to this is justified, just to clarify the otherwise seeming inconsistency.

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