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8. <del> TBD. </del> <ins> There are tradeoffs inherent in a sender sending an ACK_FREQUENCY frame to the receiver.  As such it is recommended that implementers experiment with different strategies and find those which best suit their applications and congestion controllers.  There are, however, noteworthy considerations when devising strategies for sending ACK_FREQUENCY frames. 8.1. A sender relies on receipt of acknowledgements to determine the amount of data in flight and to detect losses, e.g. when packets experience reordering, see QUIC-RECOVERY.  Consequently, how often a receiver sends acknowledgments determines how long it takes for losses to be detected at the sender. 8.2. Many congestion control algorithms have a startup mechanism during the beginning phases of a connection.  It is typical that in this period the congestion controller will quickly increase the amount of data in the network until it is signalled to stop.  While the mechanism used to achieve this increase varies, acknowledgments by the peer are generally critical during this phase to drive the congestion controller's machinery.  A sender can send ACK_FREQUENCY frames while its congestion controller is in this state, ensuring that the receiver will send acknowledgments at a rate which is optimal for the the sender's congestion controller. 8.3. Congestion controllers that are purely window-based and strictly adherent to packet conservation, such as the one defined in QUIC- RECOVERY, rely on receipt of acknowledgments to move the congestion window forward and send additional data into the network.  Such controllers will suffer degraded performance if acknowledgments are delayed excessively.  Similarly, if these controllers rely on the timing of peer acknowledgments (an "ACK clock"), delaying acknowledgments will cause undesirable bursts of data into the network. </ins> 9. TBD. <ins> 10. TBD. </ins>

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text: I think the motivations section as-is is too long. It spends a lot of time talking about what are effectively the tradeoffs. IMO the motivations section should specify why it's useful to have the sender control the receiver's ACK frequency, and then we can have a separate section for the tradeoffs. This takes a stab at that section, lifting things from motivations and adding some new text specifically addressing the nascent stages of a connection. I also made some editorial changes to the existing text. I am happy to add any additional considerations we think might need to be called out. This attempts to
Thanks for the PR, NAME ! I like the new text you propose (I've proposed some changes), but I think you might be assuming that ACK_FREQUENCY is only used for delaying acks further. An important point that bears bringing out in the motivation is that a sender might want more frequent acks as well, for example during startup. That's worth capturing in the modified motivation section.
NAME this PR is almost done, any chance you can do another round of updates and we can get it in?
NAME sorry, I'll do some updates today.
NAME NAME I've updated the PR, I'll watch and iterate on any remaining feedback quickly this time.
thanks NAME Something about vim and the macbook pro keyboard apparently makes me incapable of spelling things properly. I want my desk keyboard back
As discussed on in the base draft, we have some confidence in a particular heuristic (default tolerance of 2 for the first 100 packets, followed by a tolerance of 10) which we know to work fairly well in multiple deployments serving "typical" Internet resources to typical users. Do we want to make that recommendation explicit, or otherwise give guidance in this extension?
I think it's a good idea to describe the values for which we have experience, while encouraging experimentation. We don't need to recommend the strategy, we just need to document it as an example strategy.
I think a section on considerations and maybe past experience would be very helpful. I think it's going to be a bit of a challenge to write, but I'm happy to take a stab if no one else wants to.
What I'd want to see is just a simple explanation of what a sender could do... I would not describe results from experience, since those are anecdotal and are going to change over time. This could be a fairly short section.