On Thu, Apr 9, 2020 at 6:59 AM Thomas Fossati <thomas.foss...@arm.com>
wrote:

> On 09/04/2020, 14:20, "Eric Rescorla" <e...@rtfm.com> wrote:
> > Assuming I understand Hanno's proposal, I do not believe that this is
> > in fact an improvement, as it does not cover the important case where
> > the record containing the SH is lost and then the rest of the messages
> > from the server are uninterpretable.
>
> I don't want to speak for Hanno here but the refinement proposed in [1],
> specifically the bit that says:
>
>   [...] They may also proactively retransmit parts of a flight early if
>   an ACK message indicates a gap.
>
> should cover the case you mention I think.
>

But this requires being able to send an empty ACK that means "I got
nothing". In which case, I don't see how it's really different from the
current text except that it gives the sender less guidance.

-Ekr
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