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From: KLH@SRI-NIC.ARPA (Ken Harrenstien)
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Subject: Re: Re: A New TCP Retransmission Algorithm
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Date: Mon, 20-Apr-87 16:55:42 EST
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The ITS TCP implementation, at least, often does reduce the window by
more than the amount of bytes acknowledged; what it would really like
to use is a packet count, rather than a byte count.  It is prepared to
recover (by compaction etc) if the sender does not take any notice of
the reduced window size, but this was still a conscious decision to
live dangerously for the sake of greater efficiency.
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