On Tue, May 21, 2019 at 3:05 PM Pascal Thubert (pthubert) <
[email protected]> wrote:

> Dear all:
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> *   During the review by Laurent, a question came up on we could change
> the fragment size when transmitting a datagram. As it goes we can, because
> the offset and size are indicated in each fragment. If the MTU goes down
> and a fragment must be resend, we can also resend a smaller piece with the
> original fragment sequence and send other fragments with unused sequences
> for the rest of the original fragment. This is made possible because the
> sequence is sequential in the bitmap but not in the order of fragments.
> That being said, a reaction to an ECN is to reduce the window. At the same
> time a node could also reduce the datagram size and enable a more
> streamlined transmission for all.   What do you all think? *
>

I think we should not change size to smaller when transmitting, but if
needed it must be limited for special cases.

AB


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