QUIC                                                     J. Iyengar, Ed.
Internet-Draft                                                    Google
Intended status: Standards Track                         M. Thomson, Ed.
Expires: February 16, 2018                                       Mozilla
                                                         August 15, 2017


           QUIC: A UDP-Based Multiplexed and Secure Transport
                      draft-ietf-quic-transport-05

Abstract

   This document defines the core of the QUIC transport protocol.  This
   document describes connection establishment, packet format,
   multiplexing and reliability.  Accompanying documents describe the
   cryptographic handshake and loss detection.

Note to Readers

   Discussion of this draft takes place on the QUIC working group
   mailing list (quic@ietf.org), which is archived at
   https://mailarchive.ietf.org/arch/search/?email_list=quic.

   Working Group information can be found at https://github.com/quicwg;
   source code and issues list for this draft can be found at
   https://github.com/quicwg/base-drafts/labels/transport.

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Table of Contents

   1.  Introduction  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .   4
   2.  Conventions and Definitions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .   5
     2.1.  Notational Conventions  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .   5
   3.  A QUIC Overview . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .   6
     3.1.  Low-Latency Connection Establishment  . . . . . . . . . .   6
     3.2.  Stream Multiplexing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .   6
     3.3.  Rich Signaling for Congestion Control and Loss Recovery .   7
     3.4.  Stream and Connection Flow Control  . . . . . . . . . . .   7
     3.5.  Authenticated and Encrypted Header and Payload  . . . . .   7
     3.6.  Connection Migration and Resilience to NAT Rebinding  . .   8
     3.7.  Version Negotiation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .   8
   4.  Versions  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .   8
   5.  Packet Types and Formats  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .   9
     5.1.  Long Header . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .   9
     5.2.  Short Header  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  11
     5.3.  Version Negotiation Packet  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  13
     5.4.  Cleartext Packets . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  14
       5.4.1.  Client Initial Packet . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  14
       5.4.2.  Server Stateless Retry Packet . . . . . . . . . . . .  15
       5.4.3.  Server Cleartext Packet . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  16
       5.4.4.  Client Cleartext Packet . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  16
     5.5.  Protected Packets . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  16
     5.6.  Connection ID . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  17
     5.7.  Packet Numbers  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  17
       5.7.1.  Initial Packet Number . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  19
     5.8.  Handling Packets from Different Versions  . . . . . . . .  19
   6.  Frames and Frame Types  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  19
   7.  Life of a Connection  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  21
     7.1.  Version Negotiation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  22
       7.1.1.  Using Reserved Versions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  23
     7.2.  Cryptographic and Transport Handshake . . . . . . . . . .  23



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     7.3.  Transport Parameters  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  24
       7.3.1.  Transport Parameter Definitions . . . . . . . . . . .  26
       7.3.2.  Values of Transport Parameters for 0-RTT  . . . . . .  27
       7.3.3.  New Transport Parameters  . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  27
       7.3.4.  Version Negotiation Validation  . . . . . . . . . . .  28
     7.4.  Stateless Retries . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  29
     7.5.  Proof of Source Address Ownership . . . . . . . . . . . .  29
       7.5.1.  Client Address Validation Procedure . . . . . . . . .  30
       7.5.2.  Address Validation on Session Resumption  . . . . . .  31
       7.5.3.  Address Validation Token Integrity  . . . . . . . . .  32
     7.6.  Connection Migration  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  32
       7.6.1.  Privacy Implications of Connection Migration  . . . .  32
       7.6.2.  Address Validation for Migrated Connections . . . . .  33
     7.7.  Connection Termination  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  34
     7.8.  Stateless Reset . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  34
       7.8.1.  Detecting a Stateless Reset . . . . . . . . . . . . .  36
       7.8.2.  Calculating a Stateless Reset Token . . . . . . . . .  36
   8.  Frame Types and Formats . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  37
     8.1.  PADDING Frame . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  37
     8.2.  RST_STREAM Frame  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  37
     8.3.  CONNECTION_CLOSE frame  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  38
     8.4.  MAX_DATA Frame  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  39
     8.5.  MAX_STREAM_DATA Frame . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  39
     8.6.  MAX_STREAM_ID Frame . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  40
     8.7.  PING frame  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  41
     8.8.  BLOCKED Frame . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  41
     8.9.  STREAM_BLOCKED Frame  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  41
     8.10. STREAM_ID_NEEDED Frame  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  42
     8.11. NEW_CONNECTION_ID Frame . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  42
     8.12. STOP_SENDING Frame  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  43
     8.13. ACK Frame . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  43
       8.13.1.  ACK Block Section  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  46
       8.13.2.  Timestamp Section  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  46
       8.13.3.  ACK Frames and Packet Protection . . . . . . . . . .  48
     8.14. STREAM Frame  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  49
   9.  Packetization and Reliability . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  51
     9.1.  Special Considerations for PMTU Discovery . . . . . . . .  53
   10. Streams: QUIC's Data Structuring Abstraction  . . . . . . . .  53
     10.1.  Stream Identifiers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  54
     10.2.  Life of a Stream . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  54
       10.2.1.  idle . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  56
       10.2.2.  open . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  56
       10.2.3.  half-closed (local)  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  57
       10.2.4.  half-closed (remote) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  57
       10.2.5.  closed . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  58
     10.3.  Solicited State Transitions  . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  58
     10.4.  Stream Concurrency . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  59
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     10.6.  Stream Prioritization  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  60
   11. Flow Control  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  61
     11.1.  Edge Cases and Other Considerations  . . . . . . . . . .  62
       11.1.1.  Response to a RST_STREAM . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  63
       11.1.2.  Data Limit Increments  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  63
     11.2.  Stream Limit Increment . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  63
       11.2.1.  Blocking on Flow Control . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  64
     11.3.  Stream Final Offset  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  64
   12. Error Handling  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  65
     12.1.  Connection Errors  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  65
     12.2.  Stream Errors  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  66
     12.3.  Error Codes  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  66
   13. Security and Privacy Considerations . . . . . . . . . . . . .  68
     13.1.  Spoofed ACK Attack . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  68
     13.2.  Slowloris Attacks  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  68
     13.3.  Stream Fragmentation and Reassembly Attacks  . . . . . .  69
     13.4.  Stream Commitment Attack . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  69
   14. IANA Considerations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  70
     14.1.  QUIC Transport Parameter Registry  . . . . . . . . . . .  70
   15. References  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  71
     15.1.  Normative References . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  71
     15.2.  Informative References . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  72
     15.3.  URIs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  73
   Appendix A.  Contributors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  73
   Appendix B.  Acknowledgments  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  73
   Appendix C.  Change Log . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  74
     C.1.  Since draft-ietf-quic-transport-04  . . . . . . . . . . .  74
     C.2.  Since draft-ietf-quic-transport-03  . . . . . . . . . . .  74
     C.3.  Since draft-ietf-quic-transport-02  . . . . . . . . . . .  75
     C.4.  Since draft-ietf-quic-transport-01  . . . . . . . . . . .  76
     C.5.  Since draft-ietf-quic-transport-00  . . . . . . . . . . .  78
     C.6.  Since draft-hamilton-quic-transport-protocol-01 . . . . .  78
   Authors' Addresses  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  78

1.  Introduction

   QUIC is a multiplexed and secure transport protocol that runs on top
   of UDP.  QUIC aims to provide a flexible set of features that allow
   it to be a general-purpose transport for multiple applications.

   QUIC implements techniques learned from experience with TCP, SCTP and
   other transport protocols.  QUIC uses UDP as substrate so as to not
   require changes to legacy client operating systems and middleboxes to
   be deployable.  QUIC authenticates all of its headers and encrypts
   most of the data it exchanges, including its signaling.  This allows
   the protocol to evolve without incurring a dependency on upgrades to
   middleboxes.  This document describes the core QUIC protocol,
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   QUIC protocol for connection establishment, stream multiplexing,
   stream and connection-level flow control, and data reliability.

   Accompanying documents describe QUIC's loss detection and congestion
   control [QUIC-RECOVERY], and the use of TLS 1.3 for key negotiation
   [QUIC-TLS].

2.  Conventions and Definitions

   The words "MUST", "MUST NOT", "SHOULD", and "MAY" are used in this
   document.  It's not shouting; when they are capitalized, they have
   the special meaning defined in [RFC2119].

   Definitions of terms that are used in this document:

   Client:  The endpoint initiating a QUIC connection.

   Server:  The endpoint accepting incoming QUIC connections.

   Endpoint:  The client or server end of a connection.

   Stream:  A logical, bi-directional channel of ordered bytes within a
      QUIC connection.

   Connection:  A conversation between two QUIC endpoints with a single
      encryption context that multiplexes streams within it.

   Connection ID:  The identifier for a QUIC connection.

   QUIC packet:  A well-formed UDP payload that can be parsed by a QUIC
      receiver.  QUIC packet size in this document refers to the UDP
      payload size.

2.1.  Notational Conventions

   Packet and frame diagrams use the format described in [RFC2360]
   Section 3.1, with the following additional conventions:

   [x]  Indicates that x is optional

   {x}  Indicates that x is encrypted

   x (A)  Indicates that x is A bits long

   x (A/B/C) ...  Indicates that x is one of A, B, or C bits long

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3.  A QUIC Overview

   This section briefly describes QUIC's key mechanisms and benefits.
   Key strengths of QUIC include:

   o  Low-latency connection establishment

   o  Multiplexing without head-of-line blocking

   o  Authenticated and encrypted header and payload

   o  Rich signaling for congestion control and loss recovery

   o  Stream and connection flow control

   o  Connection migration and resilience to NAT rebinding

   o  Version negotiation

3.1.  Low-Latency Connection Establishment

   QUIC relies on a combined cryptographic and transport handshake for
   setting up a secure transport connection.  QUIC connections are
   expected to commonly use 0-RTT handshakes, meaning that for most QUIC
   connections, data can be sent immediately following the client
   handshake packet, without waiting for a reply from the server.  QUIC
   provides a dedicated stream (Stream ID 0) to be used for performing
   the cryptographic handshake and QUIC options negotiation.  The format
   of the QUIC options and parameters used during negotiation are
   described in this document, but the handshake protocol that runs on
   Stream ID 0 is described in the accompanying cryptographic handshake
   draft [QUIC-TLS].

3.2.  Stream Multiplexing

   When application messages are transported over TCP, independent
   application messages can suffer from head-of-line blocking.  When an
   application multiplexes many streams atop TCP's single-bytestream
   abstraction, a loss of a TCP segment results in blocking of all
   subsequent segments until a retransmission arrives, irrespective of
   the application streams that are encapsulated in subsequent segments.
   QUIC ensures that lost packets carrying data for an individual stream
   only impact that specific stream.  Data received on other streams can
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3.3.  Rich Signaling for Congestion Control and Loss Recovery

   QUIC's packet framing and acknowledgments carry rich information that
   help both congestion control and loss recovery in fundamental ways.
   Each QUIC packet carries a new packet number, including those
   carrying retransmitted data.  This obviates the need for a separate
   mechanism to distinguish acknowledgments for retransmissions from
   those for original transmissions, avoiding TCP's retransmission
   ambiguity problem.  QUIC acknowledgments also explicitly encode the
   delay between the receipt of a packet and its acknowledgment being
   sent, and together with the monotonically-increasing packet numbers,
   this allows for precise network roundtrip-time (RTT) calculation.
   QUIC's ACK frames support up to 256 ACK blocks, so QUIC is more
   resilient to reordering than TCP with SACK support, as well as able
   to keep more bytes on the wire when there is reordering or loss.

3.4.  Stream and Connection Flow Control

   QUIC implements stream- and connection-level flow control.  At a high
   level, a QUIC receiver advertises the maximum amount of data that it
   is willing to receive on each stream.  As data is sent, received, and
   delivered on a particular stream, the receiver sends MAX_STREAM_DATA
   frames that increase the advertised limit for that stream, allowing
   the peer to send more data on that stream.

   In addition to this stream-level flow control, QUIC implements
   connection-level flow control to limit the aggregate buffer that a
   QUIC receiver is willing to allocate to all streams on a connection.
   Connection-level flow control works in the same way as stream-level
   flow control, but the bytes delivered and the limits are aggregated
   across all streams.

3.5.  Authenticated and Encrypted Header and Payload

   TCP headers appear in plaintext on the wire and are not
   authenticated, causing a plethora of injection and header
   manipulation issues for TCP, such as receive-window manipulation and
   sequence-number overwriting.  While some of these are mechanisms used
   by middleboxes to improve TCP performance, others are active attacks.
   Even "performance-enhancing" middleboxes that routinely interpose on
   the transport state machine end up limiting the evolvability of the
   transport protocol, as has been observed in the design of MPTCP
   [RFC6824] and in its subsequent deployability issues.

   Generally, QUIC packets are always authenticated and the payload is
   typically fully encrypted.  The parts of the packet header which are
   not encrypted are still authenticated by the receiver, so as to
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   early handshake packets, such as the Version Negotiation packet, are
   not encrypted, but information sent in these unencrypted handshake
   packets is later verified as part of cryptographic processing.

3.6.  Connection Migration and Resilience to NAT Rebinding

   QUIC connections are identified by a 64-bit Connection ID, randomly
   generated by the server.  QUIC's consistent connection ID allows
   connections to survive changes to the client's IP and port, such as
   those caused by NAT rebindings or by the client changing network
   connectivity to a new address.  QUIC provides automatic cryptographic
   verification of a rebound client, since the client continues to use
   the same session key for encrypting and decrypting packets.  The
   consistent connection ID can be used to allow migration of the
   connection to a new server IP address as well, since the Connection
   ID remains consistent across changes in the client's and the server's
   network addresses.

3.7.  Version Negotiation

   QUIC version negotiation allows for multiple versions of the protocol
   to be deployed and used concurrently.  Version negotiation is
   described in Section 7.1.

4.  Versions

   QUIC versions are identified using a 32-bit value.

   The version 0x00000000 is reserved to represent an invalid version.
   This version of the specification is identified by the number
   0x00000001.

   Version 0x00000001 of QUIC uses TLS as a cryptographic handshake
   protocol, as described in [QUIC-TLS].

   Versions with the most significant 16 bits of the version number
   cleared are reserved for use in future IETF consensus documents.

   Versions that follow the pattern 0x?a?a?a?a are reserved for use in
   forcing version negotiation to be exercised.  That is, any version
   number where the low four bits of all octets is 1010 (in binary).  A
   client or server MAY advertise support for any of these reserved
   versions.

   Reserved version numbers will probably never represent a real
   protocol; a client MAY use one of these version numbers with the
   expectation that the server will initiate version negotiation; a




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   server MAY advertise support for one of these versions and can expect
   that clients ignore the value.

   [[RFC editor: please remove the remainder of this section before
   publication.]]

   The version number for the final version of this specification
   (0x00000001), is reserved for the version of the protocol that is
   published as an RFC.

   Version numbers used to identify IETF drafts are created by adding
   the draft number to 0xff000000.  For example, draft-ietf-quic-
   transport-13 would be identified as 0xff00000D.

   Implementors are encouraged to register version numbers of QUIC that
   they are using for private experimentation on the github wiki [4].

5.  Packet Types and Formats

   We first describe QUIC's packet types and their formats, since some
   are referenced in subsequent mechanisms.

   All numeric values are encoded in network byte order (that is, big-
   endian) and all field sizes are in bits.  When discussing individual
   bits of fields, the least significant bit is referred to as bit 0.
   Hexadecimal notation is used for describing the value of fields.

   Any QUIC packet has either a long or a short header, as indicated by
   the Header Form bit.  Long headers are expected to be used early in
   the connection before version negotiation and establishment of 1-RTT
   keys.  Short headers are minimal version-specific headers, which can
   be used after version negotiation and 1-RTT keys are established.

5.1.  Long Header

















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    0                   1                   2                   3
    0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 0 1
   +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
   |1|   Type (7)  |
   +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
   |                                                               |
   +                       Connection ID (64)                      +
   |                                                               |
   +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
   |                       Packet Number (32)                      |
   +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
   |                         Version (32)                          |
   +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
   |                          Payload (*)                        ...
   +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+

                       Figure 1: Long Header Format

   Long headers are used for packets that are sent prior to the
   completion of version negotiation and establishment of 1-RTT keys.
   Once both conditions are met, a sender SHOULD switch to sending
   short-form headers.  While inefficient, long headers MAY be used for
   packets encrypted with 1-RTT keys.  The long form allows for special
   packets - such as the Version Negotiation packet - to be represented
   in this uniform fixed-length packet format.  A long header contains
   the following fields:

   Header Form:  The most significant bit (0x80) of octet 0 (the first
      octet) is set to 1 for long headers.

   Long Packet Type:  The remaining seven bits of octet 0 contain the
      packet type.  This field can indicate one of 128 packet types.
      The types specified for this version are listed in Table 1.

   Connection ID:  Octets 1 through 8 contain the connection ID.
      Section 5.6 describes the use of this field in more detail.

   Packet Number:  Octets 9 to 12 contain the packet number.
      Section 5.7 describes the use of packet numbers.

   Version:  Octets 13 to 16 contain the selected protocol version.
      This field indicates which version of QUIC is in use and
      determines how the rest of the protocol fields are interpreted.

   Payload:  Octets from 17 onwards (the rest of QUIC packet) are the
      payload of the packet.

   The following packet types are defined:



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         +------+-------------------------------+---------------+
         | Type | Name                          | Section       |
         +------+-------------------------------+---------------+
         | 0x01 | Version Negotiation           | Section 5.3   |
         |      |                               |               |
         | 0x02 | Client Initial                | Section 5.4.1 |
         |      |                               |               |
         | 0x03 | Server Stateless Retry        | Section 5.4.2 |
         |      |                               |               |
         | 0x04 | Server Cleartext              | Section 5.4.3 |
         |      |                               |               |
         | 0x05 | Client Cleartext              | Section 5.4.4 |
         |      |                               |               |
         | 0x06 | 0-RTT Protected               | Section 5.5   |
         |      |                               |               |
         | 0x07 | 1-RTT Protected (key phase 0) | Section 5.5   |
         |      |                               |               |
         | 0x08 | 1-RTT Protected (key phase 1) | Section 5.5   |
         +------+-------------------------------+---------------+

                     Table 1: Long Header Packet Types

   The header form, packet type, connection ID, packet number and
   version fields of a long header packet are version-independent.  The
   types of packets defined in Table 1 are version-specific.  See
   Section 5.8 for details on how packets from different versions of
   QUIC are interpreted.

   (TODO: Should the list of packet types be version-independent?)

   The interpretation of the fields and the payload are specific to a
   version and packet type.  Type-specific semantics for this version
   are described in the following sections.

5.2.  Short Header
















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    0                   1                   2                   3
    0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 0 1
   +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
   |0|C|K| Type (5)|
   +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
   |                                                               |
   +                     [Connection ID (64)]                      +
   |                                                               |
   +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
   |                      Packet Number (8/16/32)                ...
   +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
   |                     Protected Payload (*)                   ...
   +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+

                       Figure 2: Short Header Format

   The short header can be used after the version and 1-RTT keys are
   negotiated.  This header form has the following fields:

   Header Form:  The most significant bit (0x80) of octet 0 is set to 0
      for the short header.

   Connection ID Flag:  The second bit (0x40) of octet 0 indicates
      whether the Connection ID field is present.  If set to 1, then the
      Connection ID field is present; if set to 0, the Connection ID
      field is omitted.  The Connection ID field can only be omitted if
      the omit_connection_id transport parameter (Section 7.3.1) is
      specified by the intended recipient of the packet.

   Key Phase Bit:  The third bit (0x20) of octet 0 indicates the key
      phase, which allows a recipient of a packet to identify the packet
      protection keys that are used to protect the packet.  See
      [QUIC-TLS] for details.

   Short Packet Type:  The remaining 5 bits of octet 0 include one of 32
      packet types.  Table 2 lists the types that are defined for short
      packets.

   Connection ID:  If the Connection ID Flag is set, a connection ID
      occupies octets 1 through 8 of the packet.  See Section 5.6 for
      more details.

   Packet Number:  The length of the packet number field depends on the
      packet type.  This field can be 1, 2 or 4 octets long depending on
      the short packet type.

   Protected Payload:  Packets with a short header always include a
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   The packet type in a short header currently determines only the size
   of the packet number field.  Additional types can be used to signal
   the presence of other fields.

                       +------+--------------------+
                       | Type | Packet Number Size |
                       +------+--------------------+
                       | 0x01 | 1 octet            |
                       |      |                    |
                       | 0x02 | 2 octets           |
                       |      |                    |
                       | 0x03 | 4 octets           |
                       +------+--------------------+

                    Table 2: Short Header Packet Types

   The header form, connection ID flag and connection ID of a short
   header packet are version-independent.  The remaining fields are
   specific to the selected QUIC version.  See Section 5.8 for details
   on how packets from different versions of QUIC are interpreted.

5.3.  Version Negotiation Packet

   A Version Negotiation packet has long headers with a type value of
   0x01 and is sent only by servers.  The Version Negotiation packet is
   a response to a client packet that contains a version that is not
   supported by the server.

   The packet number, connection ID and version fields echo
   corresponding values from the triggering client packet.  This allows
   clients some assurance that the server received the packet and that
   the Version Negotiation packet was not carried in a packet with a
   spoofed source address.

   A Version Negotiation packet is never explicitly acknowledged in an
   ACK frame by a client.  Receiving another Client Initial packet
   implicitly acknowledges a Version Negotiation packet.

   The payload of the Version Negotiation packet is a list of 32-bit
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    0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 0 1
   +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
   |                    Supported Version 1 (32)                 ...
   +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
   |                   [Supported Version 2 (32)]                ...
   +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
                                  ...
   +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
   |                   [Supported Version N (32)]                ...
   +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+

                   Figure 3: Version Negotiation Packet

   See Section 7.1 for a description of the version negotiation process.

5.4.  Cleartext Packets

   Cleartext packets are sent during the handshake prior to key
   negotiation.

   All cleartext packets contain the current QUIC version in the version
   field.

   The payload of cleartext packets also includes an integrity check,
   which is described in [QUIC-TLS].

5.4.1.  Client Initial Packet

   The Client Initial packet uses long headers with a type value of
   0x02.  It carries the first cryptographic handshake message sent by
   the client.

   The client populates the connection ID field with randomly selected
   values, unless it has received a packet from the server.  If the
   client has received a packet from the server, the connection ID field
   uses the value provided by the server.

   The packet number used for Client Initial packets is initialized with
   a random value each time the new contents are created for the packet.
   Retransmissions of the packet contents increment the packet number by
   one, see (Section 5.7).

   The payload of a Client Initial packet consists of a STREAM frame (or
   frames) for stream 0 containing a cryptographic handshake message,
   with enough PADDING frames that the packet is at least 1200 octets
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   offset of 0 (see Section 7.4) and the complete cyptographic handshake
   message MUST fit in a single packet (see Section 7.2).

   The client uses the Client Initial Packet type for any packet that
   contains an initial cryptographic handshake message.  This includes
   all cases where a new packet containing the initial cryptographic
   message needs to be created, this includes the packets sent after
   receiving a Version Negotiation (Section 5.3) or Server Stateless
   Retry packet (Section 5.4.2).

5.4.2.  Server Stateless Retry Packet

   A Server Stateless Retry packet uses long headers with a type value
   of 0x03.  It carries cryptographic handshake messages and
   acknowledgments.  It is used by a server that wishes to perform a
   stateless retry (see Section 7.4).

   The packet number and connection ID fields echo the corresponding
   fields from the triggering client packet.  This allows a client to
   verify that the server received its packet.

   A Server Stateless Retry packet is never explicitly acknowledged in
   an ACK frame by a client.  Receiving another Client Initial packet
   implicitly acknowledges a Server Stateless Retry packet.

   After receiving a Server Stateless Retry packet, the client uses a
   new Client Initial packet containing the next cryptographic handshake
   message.  The client retains the state of its cryptographic
   handshake, but discards all transport state.  In effect, the next
   cryptographic handshake message is sent on a new connection.  The new
   Client Initial packet is sent in a packet with a newly randomized
   packet number and starting at a stream offset of 0.

   Continuing the cryptographic handshake is necessary to ensure that an
   attacker cannot force a downgrade of any cryptographic parameters.
   In addition to continuing the cryptographic handshake, the client
   MUST remember the results of any version negotiation that occurred
   (see Section 7.1).  The client MAY also retain any observed RTT or
   congestion state that it has accumulated for the flow, but other
   transport state MUST be discarded.

   The payload of the Server Stateless Retry packet contains STREAM
   frames and could contain PADDING and ACK frames.  A server can only
   send a single Server Stateless Retry packet in response to each
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5.4.3.  Server Cleartext Packet

   A Server Cleartext packet uses long headers with a type value of
   0x04.  It is used to carry acknowledgments and cryptographic
   handshake messages from the server.

   The connection ID field in a Server Cleartext packet contains a
   connection ID that is chosen by the server (see Section 5.6).

   The first Server Cleartext packet contains a randomized packet
   number.  This value is increased for each subsequent packet sent by
   the server as described in Section 5.7.

   The payload of this packet contains STREAM frames and could contain
   PADDING and ACK frames.

5.4.4.  Client Cleartext Packet

   A Client Cleartext packet uses long headers with a type value of
   0x05, and is sent when the client has received a Server Cleartext
   packet from the server.

   The connection ID field in a Client Cleartext packet contains a
   server-selected connection ID, see Section 5.6.

   The Client Cleartext packet includes a packet number that is one
   higher than the last Client Initial, 0-RTT Protected or Client
   Cleartext packet that was sent.  The packet number is incremented for
   each subsequent packet, see Section 5.7.

   The payload of this packet contains STREAM frames and could contain
   PADDING and ACK frames.

5.5.  Protected Packets

   Packets that are protected with 0-RTT keys are sent with long
   headers.  Packets that are protected with 1-RTT keys MAY be sent with
   long headers.  The different packet types explicitly indicate the
   encryption level and therefore the keys that are used to remove
   packet protection.

   Packets protected with 0-RTT keys use a type value of 0x06.  The
   connection ID field for a 0-RTT packet is selected by the client.

   The client can send 0-RTT packets after having received a packet from
   the server if that packet does not complete the handshake.  Even if
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   MUST NOT update the connection ID it uses for 0-RTT packets.  This
   enables consistent routing for all 0-RTT packets.

   Packets protected with 1-RTT keys that use long headers use a type
   value of 0x07 for key phase 0 and 0x08 for key phase 1; see
   [QUIC-TLS] for more details on the use of key phases.  The connection
   ID field for these packet types MUST contain the value selected by
   the server, see Section 5.6.

   The version field for protected packets is the current QUIC version.

   The packet number field contains a packet number, which increases
   with each packet sent, see Section 5.7 for details.

   The payload is protected using authenticated encryption.  [QUIC-TLS]
   describes packet protection in detail.  After decryption, the
   plaintext consists of a sequence of frames, as described in
   Section 6.

5.6.  Connection ID

   QUIC connections are identified by their 64-bit Connection ID.  All
   long headers contain a Connection ID.  Short headers indicate the
   presence of a Connection ID using the CONNECTION_ID flag.  When
   present, the Connection ID is in the same location in all packet
   headers, making it straightforward for middleboxes, such as load
   balancers, to locate and use it.

   The client MUST choose a random connection ID and use it in Client
   Initial packets (Section 5.4.1) and 0-RTT packets (Section 5.5).  If
   the client has received any packet from the server, it uses the
   connection ID it received from the server for all packets other than
   0-RTT packets.

   When the server receives a Client Initial packet and decides to
   proceed with the handshake, it chooses a new value for the connection
   ID and sends that in a Server Cleartext packet.  The server MAY
   choose to use the value that the client initially selects.

   Once the client receives the connection ID that the server has
   chosen, it uses this for all subsequent packets that it sends, except
   for any 0-RTT packets, which all have the same connection ID.

5.7.  Packet Numbers

   The packet number is a 64-bit unsigned number and is used as part of
   a cryptographic nonce for packet encryption.  Each endpoint maintains
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   number for sending MUST increase by at least one after sending any
   packet, unless otherwise specified (see Section 5.7.1).

   A QUIC endpoint MUST NOT reuse a packet number within the same
   connection (that is, under the same cryptographic keys).  If the
   packet number for sending reaches 2^64 - 1, the sender MUST close the
   connection without sending a CONNECTION_CLOSE frame or any further
   packets; the sender MAY send a Public Reset packet in response to
   further packets that it receives.

   To reduce the number of bits required to represent the packet number
   over the wire, only the least significant bits of the packet number
   are transmitted.  The actual packet number for each packet is
   reconstructed at the receiver based on the largest packet number
   received on a successfully authenticated packet.

   A packet number is decoded by finding the packet number value that is
   closest to the next expected packet.  The next expected packet is the
   highest received packet number plus one.  For example, if the highest
   successfully authenticated packet had a packet number of 0xaa82f30e,
   then a packet containing a 16-bit value of 0x1f94 will be decoded as
   0xaa831f94.

   The sender MUST use a packet number size able to represent more than
   twice as large a range than the difference between the largest
   acknowledged packet and packet number being sent.  A peer receiving
   the packet will then correctly decode the packet number, unless the
   packet is delayed in transit such that it arrives after many higher-
   numbered packets have been received.  An endpoint SHOULD use a large
   enough packet number encoding to allow the packet number to be
   recovered even if the packet arrives after packets that are sent
   afterwards.

   As a result, the size of the packet number encoding is at least one
   more than the base 2 logarithm of the number of contiguous
   unacknowledged packet numbers, including the new packet.

   For example, if an endpoint has received an acknowledgment for packet
   0x6afa2f, sending a packet with a number of 0x6b4264 requires a
   16-bit or larger packet number encoding; whereas a 32-bit packet
   number is needed to send a packet with a number of 0x6bc107.

   Version Negotiation (Section 5.3) and Server Stateless Retry
   (Section 5.4.2) packets have special rules for populating the packet
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5.7.1.  Initial Packet Number

   The initial value for packet number MUST be selected from an uniform
   random distribution between 0 and 2^31-1.  That is, the lower 31 bits
   of the packet number are randomized.  [RFC4086] provides guidance on
   the generation of random values.

   The first set of packets sent by an endpoint MUST include the low
   32-bits of the packet number.  Once any packet has been acknowledged,
   subsequent packets can use a shorter packet number encoding.

   A client that receives a Version Negotiation (Section 5.3) or Server
   Stateless Retry packet (Section 5.4.2) MUST generate a new initial
   packet number.  This ensures that the first transmission attempt for
   a Client Initial packet (Section 5.4.1) always contains a randomized
   packet number, but packets that contain retransmissions increment the
   packet number.

   A client MUST NOT generate a new initial packet number if it discards
   the server packet.  This might happen if the information the client
   retransmits its Client Initial packet.

5.8.  Handling Packets from Different Versions

   Between different versions the following things are guaranteed to
   remain constant:

   o  the location of the header form flag,

   o  the location of the Connection ID flag in short headers,

   o  the location and size of the Connection ID field in both header
      forms,

   o  the location and size of the Version field in long headers, and

   o  the location and size of the Packet Number field in long headers.

   Implementations MUST assume that an unsupported version uses an
   unknown packet format.  All other fields MUST be ignored when
   processing a packet that contains an unsupported version.

6.  Frames and Frame Types

   The payload of cleartext packets and the plaintext after decryption
   of protected payloads consists of a sequence of frames, as shown in
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    0                   1                   2                   3
    0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 0 1
   +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
   |                          Frame 1 (*)                        ...
   +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
   |                          Frame 2 (*)                        ...
   +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
                                  ...
   +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
   |                          Frame N (*)                        ...
   +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+

                  Figure 4: Contents of Protected Payload

   Protected payloads MUST contain at least one frame, and MAY contain
   multiple frames and multiple frame types.

   Frames MUST fit within a single QUIC packet and MUST NOT span a QUIC
   packet boundary.  Each frame begins with a Frame Type byte,
   indicating its type, followed by additional type-dependent fields:

    0                   1                   2                   3
    0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 0 1
   +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
   |   Type (8)    |           Type-Dependent Fields (*)         ...
   +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+

                      Figure 5: Generic Frame Layout

   Frame types are listed in Table 3.  Note that the Frame Type byte in
   STREAM and ACK frames is used to carry other frame-specific flags.
   For all other frames, the Frame Type byte simply identifies the
   frame.  These frames are explained in more detail as they are
   referenced later in the document.

















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            +-------------+-------------------+--------------+
            | Type Value  | Frame Type Name   | Definition   |
            +-------------+-------------------+--------------+
            | 0x00        | PADDING           | Section 8.1  |
            |             |                   |              |
            | 0x01        | RST_STREAM        | Section 8.2  |
            |             |                   |              |
            | 0x02        | CONNECTION_CLOSE  | Section 8.3  |
            |             |                   |              |
            | 0x04        | MAX_DATA          | Section 8.4  |
            |             |                   |              |
            | 0x05        | MAX_STREAM_DATA   | Section 8.5  |
            |             |                   |              |
            | 0x06        | MAX_STREAM_ID     | Section 8.6  |
            |             |                   |              |
            | 0x07        | PING              | Section 8.7  |
            |             |                   |              |
            | 0x08        | BLOCKED           | Section 8.8  |
            |             |                   |              |
            | 0x09        | STREAM_BLOCKED    | Section 8.9  |
            |             |                   |              |
            | 0x0a        | STREAM_ID_NEEDED  | Section 8.10 |
            |             |                   |              |
            | 0x0b        | NEW_CONNECTION_ID | Section 8.11 |
            |             |                   |              |
            | 0x0c        | STOP_SENDING      | Section 8.12 |
            |             |                   |              |
            | 0xa0 - 0xbf | ACK               | Section 8.13 |
            |             |                   |              |
            | 0xc0 - 0xff | STREAM            | Section 8.14 |
            +-------------+-------------------+--------------+

                           Table 3: Frame Types

7.  Life of a Connection

   A QUIC connection is a single conversation between two QUIC
   endpoints.  QUIC's connection establishment intertwines version
   negotiation with the cryptographic and transport handshakes to reduce
   connection establishment latency, as described in Section 7.2.  Once
   established, a connection may migrate to a different IP or port at
   either endpoint, due to NAT rebinding or mobility, as described in
   Section 7.6.  Finally a connection may be terminated by either
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7.1.  Version Negotiation

   QUIC's connection establishment begins with version negotiation,
   since all communication between the endpoints, including packet and
   frame formats, relies on the two endpoints agreeing on a version.

   A QUIC connection begins with a client sending a handshake packet.
   The details of the handshake mechanisms are described in Section 7.2,
   but all of the initial packets sent from the client to the server
   MUST use the long header format and MUST specify the version of the
   protocol being used.

   When the server receives a packet from a client with the long header
   format, it compares the client's version to the versions it supports.

   If the version selected by the client is not acceptable to the
   server, the server discards the incoming packet and responds with a
   Version Negotiation packet (Section 5.3).  This includes a list of
   versions that the server will accept.

   A server sends a Version Negotiation packet for every packet that it
   receives with an unacceptable version.  This allows a server to
   process packets with unsupported versions without retaining state.
   Though either the initial client packet or the version negotiation
   packet that is sent in response could be lost, the client will send
   new packets until it successfully receives a response.

   If the packet contains a version that is acceptable to the server,
   the server proceeds with the handshake (Section 7.2).  This commits
   the server to the version that the client selected.

   When the client receives a Version Negotiation packet from the
   server, it should select an acceptable protocol version.  If the
   server lists an acceptable version, the client selects that version
   and reattempts to create a connection using that version.  Though the
   contents of a packet might not change in response to version
   negotiation, a client MUST increase the packet number it uses on
   every packet it sends.  Packets MUST continue to use long headers and
   MUST include the new negotiated protocol version.

   The client MUST use the long header format and include its selected
   version on all packets until it has 1-RTT keys and it has received a
   packet from the server which is not a Version Negotiation packet.

   A client MUST NOT change the version it uses unless it is in response
   to a Version Negotiation packet from the server.  Once a client
   receives a packet from the server which is not a Version Negotiation
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   connection.  Similarly, a client MUST ignore a Version Negotiation
   packet if it has already received and acted on a Version Negotiation
   packet.

   A client MUST ignore a Version Negotiation packet that lists the
   client's chosen version.

   Version negotiation uses unprotected data.  The result of the
   negotiation MUST be revalidated as part of the cryptographic
   handshake (see Section 7.3.4).

7.1.1.  Using Reserved Versions

   For a server to use a new version in the future, clients must
   correctly handle unsupported versions.  To help ensure this, a server
   SHOULD include a reserved version (see Section 4) while generating a
   Version Negotiation packet.

   The design of version negotiation permits a server to avoid
   maintaining state for packets that it rejects in this fashion.
   However, when the server generates a Version Negotiation packet, it
   cannot randomly generate a reserved version number.  This is because
   the server is required to include the same value in its transport
   parameters (see Section 7.3.4).  To avoid the selected version number
   changing during connection establishment, the reserved version SHOULD
   be generated as a function of values that will be available to the
   server when later generating its handshake packets.

   A pseudorandom function that takes client address information (IP and
   port) and the client selected version as input would ensure that
   there is sufficient variability in the values that a server uses.

   A client MAY send a packet using a reserved version number.  This can
   be used to solicit a list of supported versions from a server.

7.2.  Cryptographic and Transport Handshake

   QUIC relies on a combined cryptographic and transport handshake to
   minimize connection establishment latency.  QUIC allocates stream 0
   for the cryptographic handshake.  Version 0x00000001 of QUIC uses TLS
   1.3 as described in [QUIC-TLS]; a different QUIC version number could
   indicate that a different cryptographic handshake protocol is in use.

   QUIC provides this stream with reliable, ordered delivery of data.
   In return, the cryptographic handshake provides QUIC with:

   o  authenticated key exchange, where




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      *  a server is always authenticated,

      *  a client is optionally authenticated,

      *  every connection produces distinct and unrelated keys,

      *  keying material is usable for packet protection for both 0-RTT
         and 1-RTT packets, and

      *  1-RTT keys have forward secrecy

   o  authenticated values for the transport parameters of the peer (see
      Section 7.3)

   o  authenticated confirmation of version negotiation (see
      Section 7.3.4)

   o  authenticated negotiation of an application protocol (TLS uses
      ALPN [RFC7301] for this purpose)

   o  for the server, the ability to carry data that provides assurance
      that the client can receive packets that are addressed with the
      transport address that is claimed by the client (see Section 7.5)

   The initial cryptographic handshake message MUST be sent in a single
   packet.  Any second attempt that is triggered by address validation
   MUST also be sent within a single packet.  This avoids having to
   reassemble a message from multiple packets.  Reassembling messages
   requires that a server maintain state prior to establishing a
   connection, exposing the server to a denial of service risk.

   The first client packet of the cryptographic handshake protocol MUST
   fit within a 1232 octet QUIC packet payload.  This includes overheads
   that reduce the space available to the cryptographic handshake
   protocol.

   Details of how TLS is integrated with QUIC is provided in more detail
   in [QUIC-TLS].

7.3.  Transport Parameters

   During connection establishment, both endpoints make authenticated
   declarations of their transport parameters.  These declarations are
   made unilaterally by each endpoint.  Endpoints are required to comply
   with the restrictions implied by these parameters; the description of
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   The format of the transport parameters is the TransportParameters
   struct from Figure 6.  This is described using the presentation
   language from Section 3 of [I-D.ietf-tls-tls13].

      uint32 QuicVersion;

      enum {
         initial_max_stream_data(0),
         initial_max_data(1),
         initial_max_stream_id(2),
         idle_timeout(3),
         omit_connection_id(4),
         max_packet_size(5),
         stateless_reset_token(6),
         (65535)
      } TransportParameterId;

      struct {
         TransportParameterId parameter;
         opaque value<0..2^16-1>;
      } TransportParameter;

      struct {
         select (Handshake.msg_type) {
            case client_hello:
               QuicVersion negotiated_version;
               QuicVersion initial_version;

            case encrypted_extensions:
               QuicVersion supported_versions<2..2^8-4>;

            case new_session_ticket:
               struct {};
         };
         TransportParameter parameters<30..2^16-1>;
      } TransportParameters;

                Figure 6: Definition of TransportParameters

   The "extension_data" field of the quic_transport_parameters extension
   defined in [QUIC-TLS] contains a TransportParameters value.  TLS
   encoding rules are therefore used to encode the transport parameters.

   QUIC encodes transport parameters into a sequence of octets, which
   are then included in the cryptographic handshake.  Once the handshake
   completes, the transport parameters declared by the peer are
   available.  Each endpoint validates the value provided by its peer.
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   Section 7.3.4) before the connection establishment is considered
   properly complete.

   Definitions for each of the defined transport parameters are included
   in Section 7.3.1.

7.3.1.  Transport Parameter Definitions

   An endpoint MUST include the following parameters in its encoded
   TransportParameters:

   initial_max_stream_data (0x0000):  The initial stream maximum data
      parameter contains the initial value for the maximum data that can
      be sent on any newly created stream.  This parameter is encoded as
      an unsigned 32-bit integer in units of octets.  This is equivalent
      to an implicit MAX_STREAM_DATA frame (Section 8.5) being sent on
      all streams immediately after opening.

   initial_max_data (0x0001):  The initial maximum data parameter
      contains the initial value for the maximum amount of data that can
      be sent on the connection.  This parameter is encoded as an
      unsigned 32-bit integer in units of 1024 octets.  That is, the
      value here is multiplied by 1024 to determine the actual maximum
      value.  This is equivalent to sending a MAX_DATA (Section 8.4) for
      the connection immediately after completing the handshake.

   initial_max_stream_id (0x0002):  The initial maximum stream ID
      parameter contains the initial maximum stream number the peer may
      initiate, encoded as an unsigned 32-bit integer.  This is
      equivalent to sending a MAX_STREAM_ID (Section 8.6) immediately
      after completing the handshake.

   idle_timeout (0x0003):  The idle timeout is a value in seconds that
      is encoded as an unsigned 16-bit integer.  The maximum value is
      600 seconds (10 minutes).

   stateless_reset_token (0x0005):  The Stateless Reset Token is used in
      verifying a stateless reset, see Section 7.8.  This parameter is a
      sequence of 16 octets.

   An endpoint MAY use the following transport parameters:

   omit_connection_id (0x0004):  The omit connection identifier
      parameter indicates that packets sent to the endpoint that
      advertises this parameter can omit the connection ID.  This can be
      used by an endpoint where it knows that source and destination IP
      address and port are sufficient for it to identify a connection.
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      that the endpoint relies on the connection ID being present in
      every packet.

   max_packet_size (0x0005):  The maximum packet size parameter places a
      limit on the size of packets that the endpoint is willing to
      receive, encoded as an unsigned 16-bit integer.  This indicates
      that packets larger than this limit will be dropped.  The default
      for this parameter is the maximum permitted UDP payload of 65527.
      Values below 1200 are invalid.  This limit only applies to
      protected packets (Section 5.5).

7.3.2.  Values of Transport Parameters for 0-RTT

   Transport parameters from the server MUST be remembered by the client
   for use with 0-RTT data.  If the TLS NewSessionTicket message
   includes the quic_transport_parameters extension, then those values
   are used for the server values when establishing a new connection
   using that ticket.  Otherwise, the transport parameters that the
   server advertises during connection establishment are used.

   A server can remember the transport parameters that it advertised, or
   store an integrity-protected copy of the values in the ticket and
   recover the information when accepting 0-RTT data.  A server uses the
   transport parameters in determining whether to accept 0-RTT data.

   A server MAY accept 0-RTT and subsequently provide different values
   for transport parameters for use in the new connection.  If 0-RTT
   data is accepted by the server, the server MUST NOT reduce any limits
   or alter any values that might be violated by the client with its
   0-RTT data.  In particular, a server that accepts 0-RTT data MUST NOT
   set values for initial_max_data or initial_max_stream_data that are
   smaller than the remembered value of those parameters.  Similarly, a
   server MUST NOT reduce the value of initial_max_stream_id.

   A server MUST reject 0-RTT data or even abort a handshake if the
   implied values for transport parameters cannot be supported.

7.3.3.  New Transport Parameters

   New transport parameters can be used to negotiate new protocol
   behavior.  An endpoint MUST ignore transport parameters that it does
   not support.  Absence of a transport parameter therefore disables any
   optional protocol feature that is negotiated using the parameter.

   New transport parameters can be registered according to the rules in
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7.3.4.  Version Negotiation Validation

   The transport parameters include three fields that encode version
   information.  These retroactively authenticate the version
   negotiation (see Section 7.1) that is performed prior to the
   cryptographic handshake.

   The cryptographic handshake provides integrity protection for the
   negotiated version as part of the transport parameters (see
   Section 7.3).  As a result, modification of version negotiation
   packets by an attacker can be detected.

   The client includes two fields in the transport parameters:

   o  The negotiated_version is the version that was finally selected
      for use.  This MUST be identical to the value that is on the
      packet that carries the ClientHello.  A server that receives a
      negotiated_version that does not match the version of QUIC that is
      in use MUST terminate the connection with a
      VERSION_NEGOTIATION_ERROR error code.

   o  The initial_version is the version that the client initially
      attempted to use.  If the server did not send a version
      negotiation packet Section 5.3, this will be identical to the
      negotiated_version.

   A server that processes all packets in a stateful fashion can
   remember how version negotiation was performed and validate the
   initial_version value.

   A server that does not maintain state for every packet it receives
   (i.e., a stateless server) uses a different process.  If the initial
   and negotiated versions are the same, a stateless server can accept
   the value.

   If the initial version is different from the negotiated_version, a
   stateless server MUST check that it would have sent a version
   negotiation packet if it had received a packet with the indicated
   initial_version.  If a server would have accepted the version
   included in the initial_version and the value differs from the value
   of negotiated_version, the server MUST terminate the connection with
   a VERSION_NEGOTIATION_ERROR error.

   The server includes a list of versions that it would send in any
   version negotiation packet (Section 5.3) in supported_versions.  The
   server populates this field even if it did not send a version
   negotiation packet.  This field is absent if the parameters are
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   The client can validate that the negotiated_version is included in
   the supported_versions list and - if version negotiation was
   performed - that it would have selected the negotiated version.  A
   client MUST terminate the connection with a VERSION_NEGOTIATION_ERROR
   error code if the negotiated_version value is not included in the
   supported_versions list.  A client MUST terminate with a
   VERSION_NEGOTIATION_ERROR error code if version negotiation occurred
   but it would have selected a different version based on the value of
   the supported_versions list.

   When an endpoint accepts multiple QUIC versions, it can potentially
   interpret transport parameters as they are defined by any of the QUIC
   versions it supports.  The version field in the QUIC packet header is
   authenticated using transport parameters.  The position and the
   format of the version fields in transport parameters MUST either be
   identical across different QUIC versions, or be unambiguously
   different to ensure no confusion about their interpretation.  One way
   that a new format could be introduced is to define a TLS extension
   with a different codepoint.

7.4.  Stateless Retries

   A server can process an initial cryptographic handshake messages from
   a client without committing any state.  This allows a server to
   perform address validation (Section 7.5, or to defer connection
   establishment costs.

   A server that generates a response to an initial packet without
   retaining connection state MUST use the Server Stateless Retry packet
   (Section 5.4.2).  This packet causes a client to reset its transport
   state and to continue the connection attempt with new connection
   state while maintaining the state of the cryptographic handshake.

   A server MUST NOT send multiple Server Stateless Retry packets in
   response to a client handshake packet.  Thus, any cryptographic
   handshake message that is sent MUST fit within a single packet.

   In TLS, the Server Stateless Retry packet type is used to carry the
   HelloRetryRequest message.

7.5.  Proof of Source Address Ownership

   Transport protocols commonly spend a round trip checking that a
   client owns the transport address (IP and port) that it claims.
   Verifying that a client can receive packets sent to its claimed
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   This technique is used primarily to avoid QUIC from being used for
   traffic amplification attack.  In such an attack, a packet is sent to
   a server with spoofed source address information that identifies a
   victim.  If a server generates more or larger packets in response to
   that packet, the attacker can use the server to send more data toward
   the victim than it would be able to send on its own.

   Several methods are used in QUIC to mitigate this attack.  Firstly,
   the initial handshake packet is padded to at least 1280 octets.  This
   allows a server to send a similar amount of data without risking
   causing an amplification attack toward an unproven remote address.

   A server eventually confirms that a client has received its messages
   when the cryptographic handshake successfully completes.  This might
   be insufficient, either because the server wishes to avoid the
   computational cost of completing the handshake, or it might be that
   the size of the packets that are sent during the handshake is too
   large.  This is especially important for 0-RTT, where the server
   might wish to provide application data traffic - such as a response
   to a request - in response to the data carried in the early data from
   the client.

   To send additional data prior to completing the cryptographic
   handshake, the server then needs to validate that the client owns the
   address that it claims.

   Source address validation is therefore performed during the
   establishment of a connection.  TLS provides the tools that support
   the feature, but basic validation is performed by the core transport
   protocol.

7.5.1.  Client Address Validation Procedure

   QUIC uses token-based address validation.  Any time the server wishes
   to validate a client address, it provides the client with a token.
   As long as the token cannot be easily guessed (see Section 7.5.3), if
   the client is able to return that token, it proves to the server that
   it received the token.

   During the processing of the cryptographic handshake messages from a
   client, TLS will request that QUIC make a decision about whether to
   proceed based on the information it has.  TLS will provide QUIC with
   any token that was provided by the client.  For an initial packet,
   QUIC can decide to abort the connection, allow it to proceed, or
   request address validation.

   If QUIC decides to request address validation, it provides the
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   consumed by the server that generates the token, so there is no need
   for a single well-defined format.  A token could include information
   about the claimed client address (IP and port), a timestamp, and any
   other supplementary information the server will need to validate the
   token in the future.

   The cryptographic handshake is responsible for enacting validation by
   sending the address validation token to the client.  A legitimate
   client will include a copy of the token when it attempts to continue
   the handshake.  The cryptographic handshake extracts the token then
   asks QUIC a second time whether the token is acceptable.  In
   response, QUIC can either abort the connection or permit it to
   proceed.

   A connection MAY be accepted without address validation - or with
   only limited validation - but a server SHOULD limit the data it sends
   toward an unvalidated address.  Successful completion of the
   cryptographic handshake implicitly provides proof that the client has
   received packets from the server.

7.5.2.  Address Validation on Session Resumption

   A server MAY provide clients with an address validation token during
   one connection that can be used on a subsequent connection.  Address
   validation is especially important with 0-RTT because a server
   potentially sends a significant amount of data to a client in
   response to 0-RTT data.

   A different type of token is needed when resuming.  Unlike the token
   that is created during a handshake, there might be some time between
   when the token is created and when the token is subsequently used.
   Thus, a resumption token SHOULD include an expiration time.  It is
   also unlikely that the client port number is the same on two
   different connections; validating the port is therefore unlikely to
   be successful.

   This token can be provided to the cryptographic handshake immediately
   after establishing a connection.  QUIC might also generate an updated
   token if significant time passes or the client address changes for
   any reason (see Section 7.6).  The cryptographic handshake is
   responsible for providing the client with the token.  In TLS the
   token is included in the ticket that is used for resumption and
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7.5.3.  Address Validation Token Integrity

   An address validation token MUST be difficult to guess.  Including a
   large enough random value in the token would be sufficient, but this
   depends on the server remembering the value it sends to clients.

   A token-based scheme allows the server to offload any state
   associated with validation to the client.  For this design to work,
   the token MUST be covered by integrity protection against
   modification or falsification by clients.  Without integrity
   protection, malicious clients could generate or guess values for
   tokens that would be accepted by the server.  Only the server
   requires access to the integrity protection key for tokens.

   In TLS the address validation token is often bundled with the
   information that TLS requires, such as the resumption secret.  In
   this case, adding integrity protection can be delegated to the
   cryptographic handshake protocol, avoiding redundant protection.  If
   integrity protection is delegated to the cryptographic handshake, an
   integrity failure will result in immediate cryptographic handshake
   failure.  If integrity protection is performed by QUIC, QUIC MUST
   abort the connection if the integrity check fails with a
   PROTOCOL_VIOLATION error code.

7.6.  Connection Migration

   QUIC connections are identified by their 64-bit Connection ID.
   QUIC's consistent connection ID allows connections to survive changes
   to the client's IP and/or port, such as those caused by client or
   server migrating to a new network.  Connection migration allows a
   client to retain any shared state with a connection when they move
   networks.  This includes state that can be hard to recover such as
   outstanding requests, which might otherwise be lost with no easy way
   to retry them.

7.6.1.  Privacy Implications of Connection Migration

   Using a stable connection ID on multiple network paths allows a
   passive observer to correlate activity between those paths.  A client
   that moves between networks might not wish to have their activity
   correlated by any entity other than a server.  The NEW_CONNECTION_ID
   message can be sent by a server to provide an unlinkable connection
   ID for use in case the client wishes to explicitly break linkability
   between two points of network attachment.

   A client might need to send packets on multiple networks without
   receiving any response from the server.  To ensure that the client is
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   packet number gap are needed for each network.  To support this, a
   server sends multiple NEW_CONNECTION_ID messages.  Each
   NEW_CONNECTION_ID is marked with a sequence number.  Connection IDs
   MUST be used in the order in which they are numbered.

   A client which wishes to break linkability upon changing networks
   MUST use the connection ID provided by the server as well as
   incrementing the packet sequence number by an externally
   unpredictable value computed as described in Section 7.6.1.1.  Packet
   number gaps are cumulative.  A client might skip connection IDs, but
   it MUST ensure that it applies the associated packet number gaps for
   connection IDs that it skips in addition to the packet number gap
   associated with the connection ID that it does use.

   A server that receives a packet that is marked with a new connection
   ID recovers the packet number by adding the cumulative packet number
   gap to its expected packet number.  A server SHOULD discard packets
   that contain a smaller gap than it advertised.

   For instance, a server might provide a packet number gap of 7
   associated with a new connection ID.  If the server received packet
   10 using the previous connection ID, it should expect packets on the
   new connection ID to start at 18.  A packet with the new connection
   ID and a packet number of 17 is discarded as being in error.

7.6.1.1.  Packet Number Gap

   In order to avoid linkage, the packet number gap MUST be externally
   indistinguishable from random.  The packet number gap for a
   connection ID with sequence number is computed by encoding the
   sequence number as a 32-bit integer in big-endian format, and then
   computing:

   Gap = HKDF-Expand-Label(packet_number_secret,
                           "QUIC packet sequence gap", sequence, 4)

   The output of HKDF-Expand-Label is interpreted as a big-endian
   number. "packet_number_secret" is derived from the TLS key exchange,
   as described in [QUIC-TLS] Section 5.6.

7.6.2.  Address Validation for Migrated Connections

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7.7.  Connection Termination

   Connections should remain open until they become idle for a pre-
   negotiated period of time.  A QUIC connection, once established, can
   be terminated in one of three ways:

   1.  Explicit Shutdown: An endpoint sends a CONNECTION_CLOSE frame to
       terminate the connection.  An endpoint MAY use application-layer
       mechanisms prior to a CONNECTION_CLOSE to indicate that the
       connection will soon be terminated.  On termination of the active
       streams, a CONNECTION_CLOSE may be sent.  If an endpoint sends a
       CONNECTION_CLOSE frame while unterminated streams are active (no
       FIN bit or RST_STREAM frames have been sent or received for one
       or more streams), then the peer must assume that the streams were
       incomplete and were abnormally terminated.

   2.  Implicit Shutdown: The default idle timeout is a required
       parameter in connection negotiation.  The maximum is 10 minutes.
       If there is no network activity for the duration of the idle
       timeout, the connection is closed.  By default a CONNECTION_CLOSE
       frame will be sent.  A silent close option can be enabled when it
       is expensive to send an explicit close, such as mobile networks
       that must wake up the radio.

   3.  Stateless Reset: An endpoint that loses state can use this
       procedure to cause the connection to terminate early, see
       Section 7.8 for details.

   After receiving either a CONNECTION_CLOSE frame or a Public Reset, an
   endpoint MUST NOT send additional packets on that connection.  After
   sending either a CONNECTION_CLOSE frame or a Public Reset packet,
   implementations MUST NOT send any non-closing packets on that
   connection.  If additional packets are received after this time and
   before idle_timeout seconds has passed, implementations SHOULD
   respond to them by sending a CONNECTION_CLOSE (which MAY just be a
   duplicate of the previous CONNECTION_CLOSE packet) but MAY also send
   a Public Reset packet.  Implementations SHOULD throttle these
   responses, for instance by exponentially backing off the number of
   packets which are received before sending a response.  After this
   time, implementations SHOULD respond to unexpected packets with a
   Public Reset packet.

7.8.  Stateless Reset

   A stateless reset is provided as an option of last resort for a
   server that does not have access to the state of a connection.  A
   server crash or outage might result in clients continuing to send
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   A server that wishes to communicate a fatal connection error MUST use
   a CONNECTION_CLOSE frame if it has sufficient state to do so.

   To support this process, the server sends a stateless_reset_token
   value during the handshake in the transport parameters.  This value
   is protected by encryption, so only client and server know this
   value.

   A server that receives packets that it cannot process sends a packet
   in the following layout:

    0                   1                   2                   3
    0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 0 1
   +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
   |0|C|K|  00001  |
   +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
   |                                                               |
   +                     [Connection ID (64)]                      +
   |                                                               |
   +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
   |                                                               |
   +                                                               +
   |                                                               |
   +                   Stateless Reset Token (128)                 +
   |                                                               |
   +                                                               +
   |                                                               |
   +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
   |                        Random Octets (*)                    ...
   +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+

   This packet SHOULD use the short header form with the shortest
   possible packet number encoding.  This minimizes the perceived gap
   between the last packet that the server sent and this packet.  The
   leading octet of the Stateless Reset Token will be interpreted as a
   packet number.  A server MAY use a different short header type,
   indicating a different packet number length, but this allows for the
   message to be identified as a stateless reset more easily using
   heuristics.

   A server copies the connection ID field from the packet that triggers
   the stateless reset.  A server omits the connection ID if explicitly
   configured to do so, or if the client packet did not include a
   connection ID.

   After the first short header octet and optional connection ID, the
   server includes the value of the Stateless Reset Token that it
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   After the Stateless Reset Token, the endpoint pads the message with
   an arbitrary number of octets containing random values.

   This design ensures that a stateless reset packet is - to the extent
   possible - indistinguishable from a regular packet.

   A stateless reset is not appropriate for signaling error conditions.
   An endpoint that wishes to communicate a fatal connection error MUST
   use a CONNECTION_CLOSE frame if it has sufficient state to do so.

7.8.1.  Detecting a Stateless Reset

   A client detects a potential stateless reset when a packet with a
   short header cannot be decrypted.  The client then performs a
   constant-time comparison of the 16 octets that follow the Connection
   ID with the Stateless Reset Token provided by the server in its
   transport parameters.  If this comparison is successful, the
   connection MUST be terminated immediately.  Otherwise, the packet can
   be discarded.

7.8.2.  Calculating a Stateless Reset Token

   The stateless reset token MUST be difficult to guess.  In order to
   create a Stateless Reset Token, a server could randomly generate
   [RFC4086] a secret for every connection that it creates.  However,
   this presents a coordination problem when there are multiple servers
   in a cluster or a storage problem for a server that might lose state.
   Stateless reset specifically exists to handle the case where state is
   lost, so this approach is suboptimal.

   A single static key can be used across all connections to the same
   endpoint by generating the proof using a second iteration of a
   preimage-resistant function that takes three inputs: the static key,
   a the connection ID for the connection (see Section 5.6), and an
   identifier for the server instance.  A server could use HMAC
   [RFC2104] (for example, HMAC(static_key, server_id || connection_id))
   or HKDF [RFC5869] (for example, using the static key as input keying
   material, with server and connection identifiers as salt).  The
   output of this function is truncated to 16 octets to produce the
   Stateless Reset Token for that connection.

   A server that loses state can use the same method to generate a valid
   Stateless Reset Secret.  The connection ID comes from the packet that
   the server receives.

   This design relies on the client always sending a connection ID in
   its packets so that the server can use the connection ID from a
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   cannot allow clients to omit a connection ID (that is, it cannot use
   the truncate_connection_id transport parameter Section 7.3.1).

   Revealing the Stateless Reset Token allows any entity to terminate
   the connection, so a value can only be used once.  This method for
   choosing the Stateless Reset Token means that the combination of
   server instance, connection ID, and static key cannot occur for
   another connection.  A connection ID from a connection that is reset
   by revealing the Stateless Reset Token cannot be reused for new
   connections at the same server without first changing to use a
   different static key or server identifier.

8.  Frame Types and Formats

   As described in Section 6, Regular packets contain one or more
   frames.  We now describe the various QUIC frame types that can be
   present in a Regular packet.  The use of these frames and various
   frame header bits are described in subsequent sections.

8.1.  PADDING Frame

   The PADDING frame (type=0x00) has no semantic value.  PADDING frames
   can be used to increase the size of a packet.  Padding can be used to
   increase an initial client packet to the minimum required size, or to
   provide protection against traffic analysis for protected packets.

   A PADDING frame has no content.  That is, a PADDING frame consists of
   the single octet that identifies the frame as a PADDING frame.

8.2.  RST_STREAM Frame

   An endpoint may use a RST_STREAM frame (type=0x01) to abruptly
   terminate a stream.

   After sending a RST_STREAM, an endpoint ceases transmission of STREAM
   frames on the identified stream.  A receiver of RST_STREAM can
   discard any data that it already received on that stream.  An
   endpoint sends a RST_STREAM in response to a RST_STREAM unless the
   stream is already closed.

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    0                   1                   2                   3
    0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 0 1
   +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
   |                        Stream ID (32)                         |
   +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
   |                        Error Code (32)                        |
   +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
   |                                                               |
   +                       Final Offset (64)                       +
   |                                                               |
   +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+

   The fields are:

   Stream ID:  The 32-bit Stream ID of the stream being terminated.

   Error code:  A 32-bit error code which indicates why the stream is
      being closed.

   Final offset:  A 64-bit unsigned integer indicating the absolute byte
      offset of the end of data written on this stream by the RST_STREAM
      sender.

8.3.  CONNECTION_CLOSE frame

   An endpoint sends a CONNECTION_CLOSE frame (type=0x02) to notify its
   peer that the connection is being closed.  If there are open streams
   that haven't been explicitly closed, they are implicitly closed when
   the connection is closed.  The frame is as follows:

    0                   1                   2                   3
    0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 0 1
   +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
   |                        Error Code (32)                        |
   +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
   |   Reason Phrase Length (16)   |      [Reason Phrase (*)]    ...
   +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+

   The fields of a CONNECTION_CLOSE frame are as follows:

   Error Code:  A 32-bit error code which indicates the reason for
      closing this connection.

   Reason Phrase Length:  A 16-bit unsigned number specifying the length
      of the reason phrase in bytes.  Note that a CONNECTION_CLOSE frame
      cannot be split between packets, so in practice any limits on
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   Reason Phrase:  A human-readable explanation for why the connection
      was closed.  This can be zero length if the sender chooses to not
      give details beyond the Error Code.  This SHOULD be a UTF-8
      encoded string [RFC3629].

8.4.  MAX_DATA Frame

   The MAX_DATA frame (type=0x04) is used in flow control to inform the
   peer of the maximum amount of data that can be sent on the connection
   as a whole.

   The frame is as follows:

    0                   1                   2                   3
    0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 0 1
   +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
   |                                                               |
   +                        Maximum Data (64)                      +
   |                                                               |
   +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+

   The fields in the MAX_DATA frame are as follows:

   Maximum Data:  A 64-bit unsigned integer indicating the maximum
      amount of data that can be sent on the entire connection, in units
      of 1024 octets.  That is, the updated connection-level data limit
      is determined by multiplying the encoded value by 1024.

   All data sent in STREAM frames counts toward this limit, with the
   exception of data on stream 0.  The sum of the largest received
   offsets on all streams - including closed streams, but excluding
   stream 0 - MUST NOT exceed the value advertised by a receiver.  An
   endpoint MUST terminate a connection with a
   QUIC_FLOW_CONTROL_RECEIVED_TOO_MUCH_DATA error if it receives more
   data than the maximum data value that it has sent, unless this is a
   result of a change in the initial limits (see Section 7.3.2).

8.5.  MAX_STREAM_DATA Frame

   The MAX_STREAM_DATA frame (type=0x05) is used in flow control to
   inform a peer of the maximum amount of data that can be sent on a
   stream.

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    0                   1                   2                   3
    0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 0 1
   +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
   |                        Stream ID (32)                         |
   +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
   |                                                               |
   +                    Maximum Stream Data (64)                   +
   |                                                               |
   +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+

   The fields in the MAX_STREAM_DATA frame are as follows:

   Stream ID:  The stream ID of the stream that is affected.

   Maximum Stream Data:  A 64-bit unsigned integer indicating the
      maximum amount of data that can be sent on the identified stream,
      in units of octets.

   When counting data toward this limit, an endpoint accounts for the
   largest received offset of data that is sent or received on the
   stream.  Loss or reordering can mean that the largest received offset
   on a stream can be greater than the total size of data received on
   that stream.  Receiving STREAM frames might not increase the largest
   received offset.

   The data sent on a stream MUST NOT exceed the largest maximum stream
   data value advertised by the receiver.  An endpoint MUST terminate a
   connection with a FLOW_CONTROL_ERROR error if it receives more data
   than the largest maximum stream data that it has sent for the
   affected stream, unless this is a result of a change in the initial
   limits (see Section 7.3.2).

8.6.  MAX_STREAM_ID Frame

   The MAX_STREAM_ID frame (type=0x06) informs the peer of the maximum
   stream ID that they are permitted to open.

   The frame is as follows:

    0                   1                   2                   3
    0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 0 1
   +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
   |                    Maximum Stream ID (32)                     |
   +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+

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   Maximum Stream ID:  ID of the maximum peer-initiated stream ID for
      the connection.

   Loss or reordering can mean that a MAX_STREAM_ID frame can be
   received which states a lower stream limit than the client has
   previously received.  MAX_STREAM_ID frames which do not increase the
   maximum stream ID MUST be ignored.

   A peer MUST NOT initiate a stream with a higher stream ID than the
   greatest maximum stream ID it has received.  An endpoint MUST
   terminate a connection with a STREAM_ID_ERROR error if a peer
   initiates a stream with a higher stream ID than it has sent, unless
   this is a result of a change in the initial limits (see
   Section 7.3.2).

8.7.  PING frame

   Endpoints can use PING frames (type=0x07) to verify that their peers
   are still alive or to check reachability to the peer.  The PING frame
   contains no additional fields.  The receiver of a PING frame simply
   needs to acknowledge the packet containing this frame.  The PING
   frame SHOULD be used to keep a connection alive when a stream is
   open.  The default is to send a PING frame after 15 seconds of
   quiescence.  A PING frame has no additional fields.

8.8.  BLOCKED Frame

   A sender sends a BLOCKED frame (type=0x08) when it wishes to send
   data, but is unable to due to connection-level flow control (see
   Section 11.2.1).  BLOCKED frames can be used as input to tuning of
   flow control algorithms (see Section 11.1.2).

   The BLOCKED frame does not contain a payload.

8.9.  STREAM_BLOCKED Frame

   A sender sends a STREAM_BLOCKED frame (type=0x09) when it wishes to
   send data, but is unable to due to stream-level flow control.  This
   frame is analogous to BLOCKED (Section 8.8).

   The STREAM_BLOCKED frame is as follows:

    0                   1                   2                   3
    0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 0 1
   +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
   |                        Stream ID (32)                         |
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   The STREAM_BLOCKED frame contains a single field:

   Stream ID:  A 32-bit unsigned number indicating the stream which is
      flow control blocked.

   An endpoint MAY send a STREAM_BLOCKED frame for a stream that exceeds
   the maximum stream ID set by its peer (see Section 8.6).  This does
   not open the stream, but informs the peer that a new stream was
   needed, but the stream limit prevented the creation of the stream.

8.10.  STREAM_ID_NEEDED Frame

   A sender sends a STREAM_ID_NEEDED frame (type=0x0a) when it wishes to
   open a stream, but is unable to due to the maximum stream ID limit.

   The STREAM_ID_NEEDED frame does not contain a payload.

8.11.  NEW_CONNECTION_ID Frame

   A server sends a NEW_CONNECTION_ID frame (type=0x0b) to provide the
   client with alternative connection IDs that can be used to break
   linkability when migrating connections (see Section 7.6.1).

   The NEW_CONNECTION_ID is as follows:

    0                   1                   2                   3
    0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 0 1
   +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
   |       Sequence (16)           |
   +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
   |                                                               |
   +                        Connection ID (64)                     +
   |                                                               |
   +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
   |                                                               |
   +                                                               +
   |                                                               |
   +                   Stateless Reset Token (128)                 +
   |                                                               |
   +                                                               +
   |                                                               |
   +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+

   The fields are:

   Sequence:  A 16-bit sequence number.  This value starts at 0 and
      increases by 1 for each connection ID that is provided by the
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      by 0.  When wrapping the sequence field, the server MUST ensure
      that a value with the same sequence has been received and
      acknowledged by the client.  The connection ID that is assigned
      during the handshake is assumed to have a sequence of 65535.

   Connection ID:  A 64-bit connection ID.

   Stateless Reset Token:  A 128-bit value that will be used to for a
      stateless reset when the associated connection ID is used (see
      Section 7.8).

8.12.  STOP_SENDING Frame

   An endpoint may use a STOP_SENDING frame (type=0x0c) to communicate
   that incoming data is being discarded on receipt at application
   request.  This signals a peer to abruptly terminate transmission on a
   stream.  The frame is as follows:

    0                   1                   2                   3
    0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 0 1
   +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
   |                        Stream ID (32)                         |
   +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
   |                        Error Code (32)                        |
   +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+

   The fields are:

   Stream ID:  The 32-bit Stream ID of the stream being ignored.

   Error Code:  The application-specified reason the sender is ignoring
      the stream.

8.13.  ACK Frame

   Receivers send ACK frames to inform senders which packets they have
   received and processed, as well as which packets are considered
   missing.  The ACK frame contains between 1 and 256 ACK blocks.  ACK
   blocks are ranges of acknowledged packets.  Implementations SHOULD
   NOT generate ACK packets in response to packets which only contain
   ACKs.  However, they SHOULD ACK those packets when sending ACKs for
   other packets.

   To limit ACK blocks to those that have not yet been received by the
   sender, the receiver SHOULD track which ACK frames have been
   acknowledged by its peer.  Once an ACK frame has been acknowledged,
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   A receiver that is only sending ACK frames will not receive
   acknowledgments for its packets.  Sending an occasional MAX_DATA or
   MAX_STREAM_DATA frame as data is received will ensure that
   acknowledgements are generated by a peer.  Otherwise, an endpoint MAY
   send a PING frame once per RTT to solicit an acknowledgment.

   To limit receiver state or the size of ACK frames, a receiver MAY
   limit the number of ACK blocks it sends.  A receiver can do this even
   without receiving acknowledgment of its ACK frames, with the
   knowledge this could cause the sender to unnecessarily retransmit
   some data.  When this is necessary, the receiver SHOULD acknowledge
   newly received packets and stop acknowledging packets received in the
   past.

   Unlike TCP SACKs, QUIC ACK blocks are irrevocable.  Once a packet has
   been acknowledged, even if it does not appear in a future ACK frame,
   it remains acknowledged.

   A client MUST NOT acknowledge Version Negotiation or Server Stateless
   Retry packets.  These packet types contain packet numbers selected by
   the client, not the server.

   QUIC ACK frames contain a timestamp section with up to 255
   timestamps.  Timestamps enable better congestion control, but are not
   required for correct loss recovery, and old timestamps are less
   valuable, so it is not guaranteed every timestamp will be received by
   the sender.  A receiver SHOULD send a timestamp exactly once for each
   received packet containing retransmittable frames.  A receiver MAY
   send timestamps for non-retransmittable packets.  A receiver MUST not
   send timestamps in unprotected packets.

   A sender MAY intentionally skip packet numbers to introduce entropy
   into the connection, to avoid opportunistic acknowledgement attacks.
   The sender SHOULD close the connection if an unsent packet number is
   acknowledged.  The format of the ACK frame is efficient at expressing
   blocks of missing packets; skipping packet numbers between 1 and 255
   effectively provides up to 8 bits of efficient entropy on demand,
   which should be adequate protection against most opportunistic
   acknowledgement attacks.

   The type byte for a ACK frame contains embedded flags, and is
   formatted as "101NLLMM".  These bits are parsed as follows:

   o  The first three bits must be set to 101 indicating that this is an
      ACK frame.

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   o  The two "LL" bits encode the length of the Largest Acknowledged
      field.  The values 00, 01, 02, and 03 indicate lengths of 8, 16,
      32, and 64 bits respectively.

   o  The two "MM" bits encode the length of the ACK Block Length
      fields.  The values 00, 01, 02, and 03 indicate lengths of 8, 16,
      32, and 64 bits respectively.

   An ACK frame is shown below.

    0                   1                   2                   3
    0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 0 1
   +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
   |[Num Blocks(8)]|   NumTS (8)   |
   +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
   |                Largest Acknowledged (8/16/32/64)            ...
   +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
   |        ACK Delay (16)         |
   +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
   |                     ACK Block Section (*)                   ...
   +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
   |                     Timestamp Section (*)                   ...
   +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+

                        Figure 7: ACK Frame Format

   The fields in the ACK frame are as follows:

   Num Blocks (opt):  An optional 8-bit unsigned value specifying the
      number of additional ACK blocks (besides the required First ACK
      Block) in this ACK frame.  Only present if the 'N' flag bit is 1.

   Num Timestamps:  An unsigned 8-bit number specifying the total number
      of <packet number, timestamp> pairs in the Timestamp Section.

   Largest Acknowledged:  A variable-sized unsigned value representing
      the largest packet number the peer is acknowledging in this packet
      (typically the largest that the peer has seen thus far.)

   ACK Delay:  The time from when the largest acknowledged packet, as
      indicated in the Largest Acknowledged field, was received by this
      peer to when this ACK was sent.

   ACK Block Section:  Contains one or more blocks of packet numbers
      which have been successfully received, see Section 8.13.1.

   Timestamp Section:  Contains zero or more timestamps reporting
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8.13.1.  ACK Block Section

   The ACK Block Section contains between one and 256 blocks of packet
   numbers which have been successfully received.  If the Num Blocks
   field is absent, only the First ACK Block length is present in this
   section.  Otherwise, the Num Blocks field indicates how many
   additional blocks follow the First ACK Block Length field.

    0                   1                   2                   3
    0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 0 1
   +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
   |              First ACK Block Length (8/16/32/64)            ...
   +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
   |  [Gap 1 (8)]  |       [ACK Block 1 Length (8/16/32/64)]     ...
   +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
   |  [Gap 2 (8)]  |       [ACK Block 2 Length (8/16/32/64)]     ...
   +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
                                ...
   +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
   |  [Gap N (8)]  |       [ACK Block N Length (8/16/32/64)]     ...
   +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+

                        Figure 8: ACK Block Section

   The fields in the ACK Block Section are:

   First ACK Block Length:  An unsigned packet number delta that
      indicates the number of contiguous additional packets being
      acknowledged starting at the Largest Acknowledged.

   Gap To Next Block (opt, repeated):  An unsigned number specifying the
      number of contiguous missing packets from the end of the previous
      ACK block to the start of the next.  Repeated "Num Blocks" times.

   ACK Block Length (opt, repeated):  An unsigned packet number delta
      that indicates the number of contiguous packets being acknowledged
      starting after the end of the previous gap.  Repeated "Num Blocks"
      times.

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    0                   1                   2                   3
    0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 0 1
   +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
   | [Delta LA (8)]|
   +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
   |                    [First Timestamp (32)]                     |
   +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
   |[Delta LA 1(8)]| [Time Since Previous 1 (16)]  |
   +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
   |[Delta LA 2(8)]| [Time Since Previous 2 (16)]  |
   +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
                          ...
   +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
   |[Delta LA N(8)]| [Time Since Previous N (16)]  |
   +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+

                        Figure 9: Timestamp Section

   The fields in the Timestamp Section are:

   Delta Largest Acknowledged (opt):  An optional 8-bit unsigned packet
      number delta specifying the delta between the largest acknowledged
      and the first packet whose timestamp is being reported.  In other
      words, this first packet number may be computed as (Largest
      Acknowledged - Delta Largest Acknowledged.)

   First Timestamp (opt):  An optional 32-bit unsigned value specifying
      the time delta in microseconds, from the beginning of the
      connection to the arrival of the packet indicated by Delta Largest
      Acknowledged.

   Delta Largest Acked 1..N (opt, repeated):  This field has the same
      semantics and format as "Delta Largest Acknowledged".  Repeated
      "Num Timestamps - 1" times.

   Time Since Previous Timestamp 1..N(opt, repeated):  An optional
      16-bit unsigned value specifying time delta from the previous
      reported timestamp.  It is encoded in the same format as the ACK
      Delay.  Repeated "Num Timestamps - 1" times.

   The timestamp section lists packet receipt timestamps ordered by
   timestamp.

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   The time format used in the ACK frame above is a 16-bit unsigned
   float with 11 explicit bits of mantissa and 5 bits of explicit
   exponent, specifying time in microseconds.  The bit format is loosely
   modeled after IEEE 754.  For example, 1 microsecond is represented as
   0x1, which has an exponent of zero, presented in the 5 high order
   bits, and mantissa of 1, presented in the 11 low order bits.  When
   the explicit exponent is greater than zero, an implicit high-order
   12th bit of 1 is assumed in the mantissa.  For example, a floating
   value of 0x800 has an explicit exponent of 1, as well as an explicit
   mantissa of 0, but then has an effective mantissa of 4096 (12th bit
   is assumed to be 1).  Additionally, the actual exponent is one-less
   than the explicit exponent, and the value represents 4096
   microseconds.  Any values larger than the representable range are
   clamped to 0xFFFF.

8.13.3.  ACK Frames and Packet Protection

   ACK frames that acknowledge protected packets MUST be carried in a
   packet that has an equivalent or greater level of packet protection.

   Packets that are protected with 1-RTT keys MUST be acknowledged in
   packets that are also protected with 1-RTT keys.

   A packet that is not protected and claims to acknowledge a packet
   number that was sent with packet protection is not valid.  An
   unprotected packet that carries acknowledgments for protected packets
   MUST be discarded in its entirety.

   Packets that a client sends with 0-RTT packet protection MUST be
   acknowledged by the server in packets protected by 1-RTT keys.  This
   can mean that the client is unable to use these acknowledgments if
   the server cryptographic handshake messages are delayed or lost.
   Note that the same limitation applies to other data sent by the
   server protected by the 1-RTT keys.

   Unprotected packets, such as those that carry the initial
   cryptographic handshake messages, MAY be acknowledged in unprotected
   packets.  Unprotected packets are vulnerable to falsification or
   modification.  Unprotected packets can be acknowledged along with
   protected packets in a protected packet.

   An endpoint SHOULD acknowledge packets containing cryptographic
   handshake messages in the next unprotected packet that it sends,
   unless it is able to acknowledge those packets in later packets
   protected by 1-RTT keys.  At the completion of the cryptographic
   handshake, both peers send unprotected packets containing
   cryptographic handshake messages followed by packets protected by
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   that complete the cryptographic handshake in a protected packet,
   because its peer is guaranteed to have access to 1-RTT packet
   protection keys.

   For instance, a server acknowledges a TLS ClientHello in the packet
   that carries the TLS ServerHello; similarly, a client can acknowledge
   a TLS HelloRetryRequest in the packet containing a second TLS
   ClientHello.  The complete set of server handshake messages (TLS
   ServerHello through to Finished) might be acknowledged by a client in
   protected packets, because it is certain that the server is able to
   decipher the packet.

8.14.  STREAM Frame

   STREAM frames implicitly create a stream and carry stream data.  The
   type byte for a STREAM frame contains embedded flags, and is
   formatted as "11FSSOOD".  These bits are parsed as follows:

   o  The first two bits must be set to 11, indicating that this is a
      STREAM frame.

   o  "F" is the FIN bit, which is used for stream termination.

   o  The "SS" bits encode the length of the Stream ID header field.
      The values 00, 01, 02, and 03 indicate lengths of 8, 16, 24, and
      32 bits long respectively.

   o  The "OO" bits encode the length of the Offset header field.  The
      values 00, 01, 02, and 03 indicate lengths of 0, 16, 32, and 64
      bits long respectively.

   o  The "D" bit indicates whether a Data Length field is present in
      the STREAM header.  When set to 0, this field indicates that the
      Stream Data field extends to the end of the packet.  When set to
      1, this field indicates that Data Length field contains the length
      (in bytes) of the Stream Data field.  The option to omit the
      length should only be used when the packet is a "full-sized"
      packet, to avoid the risk of corruption via padding.

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    0                   1                   2                   3
    0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 0 1
   +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
   |                    Stream ID (8/16/24/32)                   ...
   +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
   |                      Offset (0/16/32/64)                    ...
   +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
   |       [Data Length (16)]      |        Stream Data (*)      ...
   +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+

                      Figure 10: STREAM Frame Format

   The STREAM frame contains the following fields:

   Stream ID:  The stream ID of the stream (see Section 10.1).

   Offset:  A variable-sized unsigned number specifying the byte offset
      in the stream for the data in this STREAM frame.  When the offset
      length is 0, the offset is 0.  The first byte in the stream has an
      offset of 0.  The largest offset delivered on a stream - the sum
      of the re-constructed offset and data length - MUST be less than
      2^64.

   Data Length:  An optional 16-bit unsigned number specifying the
      length of the Stream Data field in this STREAM frame.  This field
      is present when the "D" bit is set to 1.

   Stream Data:  The bytes from the designated stream to be delivered.

   A stream frame's Stream Data MUST NOT be empty, unless the FIN bit is
   set.  When the FIN flag is sent on an empty STREAM frame, the offset
   in the STREAM frame is the offset of the next byte that would be
   sent.

   Stream multiplexing is achieved by interleaving STREAM frames from
   multiple streams into one or more QUIC packets.  A single QUIC packet
   can include multiple STREAM frames from one or more streams.

   Implementation note: One of the benefits of QUIC is avoidance of
   head-of-line blocking across multiple streams.  When a packet loss
   occurs, only streams with data in that packet are blocked waiting for
   a retransmission to be received, while other streams can continue
   making progress.  Note that when data from multiple streams is
   bundled into a single QUIC packet, loss of that packet blocks all
   those streams from making progress.  An implementation is therefore
   advised to bundle as few streams as necessary in outgoing packets
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9.  Packetization and Reliability

   The Path Maximum Transmission Unit (PMTU) is the maximum size of the
   entire IP header, UDP header, and UDP payload.  The UDP payload
   includes the QUIC packet header, protected payload, and any
   authentication fields.

   All QUIC packets SHOULD be sized to fit within the estimated PMTU to
   avoid IP fragmentation or packet drops.  To optimize bandwidth
   efficiency, endpoints SHOULD use Packetization Layer PMTU Discovery
   ([RFC4821]) and MAY use PMTU Discovery ([RFC1191], [RFC1981]) for
   detecting the PMTU, setting the PMTU appropriately, and storing the
   result of previous PMTU determinations.

   In the absence of these mechanisms, QUIC endpoints SHOULD NOT send IP
   packets larger than 1280 octets.  Assuming the minimum IP header
   size, this results in a QUIC packet size of 1232 octets for IPv6 and
   1252 octets for IPv4.

   QUIC endpoints that implement any kind of PMTU discovery SHOULD
   maintain an estimate for each combination of local and remote IP
   addresses (as each pairing could have a different maximum MTU in the
   path).

   QUIC depends on the network path supporting a MTU of at least 1280
   octets.  This is the IPv6 minimum and therefore also supported by
   most modern IPv4 networks.  An endpoint MUST NOT reduce their MTU
   below this number, even if it receives signals that indicate a
   smaller limit might exist.

   Clients MUST ensure that the first packet in a connection, and any
   retransmissions of those octets, has a QUIC packet size of least 1200
   octets.  The packet size for a QUIC packet includes the QUIC header
   and integrity check, but not the UDP or IP header.

   The initial client packet SHOULD be padded to exactly 1200 octets
   unless the client has a reasonable assurance that the PMTU is larger.
   Sending a packet of this size ensures that the network path supports
   an MTU of this size and helps reduce the amplitude of amplification
   attacks caused by server responses toward an unverified client
   address.

   Servers MUST ignore an initial plaintext packet from a client if its
   total size is less than 1200 octets.

   If a QUIC endpoint determines that the PMTU between any pair of local
   and remote IP addresses has fallen below 1280 octets, it MUST
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   could result in termination of the connection if an alternative path
   cannot be found.

   A sender bundles one or more frames in a Regular QUIC packet (see
   Section 6).

   A sender SHOULD minimize per-packet bandwidth and computational costs
   by bundling as many frames as possible within a QUIC packet.  A
   sender MAY wait for a short period of time to bundle multiple frames
   before sending a packet that is not maximally packed, to avoid
   sending out large numbers of small packets.  An implementation may
   use heuristics about expected application sending behavior to
   determine whether and for how long to wait.  This waiting period is
   an implementation decision, and an implementation should be careful
   to delay conservatively, since any delay is likely to increase
   application-visible latency.

   Regular QUIC packets are "containers" of frames; a packet is never
   retransmitted whole.  How an endpoint handles the loss of the frame
   depends on the type of the frame.  Some frames are simply
   retransmitted, some have their contents moved to new frames, and
   others are never retransmitted.

   When a packet is detected as lost, the sender re-sends any frames as
   necessary:

   o  All application data sent in STREAM frames MUST be retransmitted,
      unless the endpoint has sent a RST_STREAM for that stream.  When
      an endpoint sends a RST_STREAM frame, data outstanding on that
      stream SHOULD NOT be retransmitted, since subsequent data on this
      stream is expected to not be delivered by the receiver.

   o  ACK and PADDING frames MUST NOT be retransmitted.  ACK frames
      containing updated information will be sent as described in
      Section 8.13.

   o  STOP_SENDING frames MUST be retransmitted, unless the stream has
      become closed in the appropriate direction.  See Section 10.3.

   o  All other frames MUST be retransmitted.

   Upon detecting losses, a sender MUST take appropriate congestion
   control action.  The details of loss detection and congestion control
   are described in [QUIC-RECOVERY].

   A packet MUST NOT be acknowledged until packet protection has been
   successfully removed and all frames contained in the packet have been
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   (but not necessarily delivered to the application).  This also means
   that any stream state transitions triggered by STREAM or RST_STREAM
   frames have occurred.  Once the packet has been fully processed, a
   receiver acknowledges receipt by sending one or more ACK frames
   containing the packet number of the received packet.

   To avoid creating an indefinite feedback loop, an endpoint MUST NOT
   generate an ACK frame in response to a packet containing only ACK or
   PADDING frames.

   Strategies and implications of the frequency of generating
   acknowledgments are discussed in more detail in [QUIC-RECOVERY].

9.1.  Special Considerations for PMTU Discovery

   Traditional ICMP-based path MTU discovery in IPv4 [RFC1191] is
   potentially vulnerable to off-path attacks that successfully guess
   the IP/port 4-tuple and reduce the MTU to a bandwidth-inefficient
   value.  TCP connections mitigate this risk by using the (at minimum)
   8 bytes of transport header echoed in the ICMP message to validate
   the TCP sequence number as valid for the current connection.
   However, as QUIC operates over UDP, in IPv4 the echoed information
   could consist only of the IP and UDP headers, which usually has
   insufficient entropy to mitigate off-path attacks.

   As a result, endpoints that implement PMTUD in IPv4 SHOULD take steps
   to mitigate this risk.  For instance, an application could:

   o  Set the IPv4 Don't Fragment (DF) bit on a small proportion of
      packets, so that most invalid ICMP messages arrive when there are
      no DF packets outstanding, and can therefore be identified as
      spurious.

   o  Store additional information from the IP or UDP headers from DF
      packets (for example, the IP ID or UDP checksum) to further
      authenticate incoming Datagram Too Big messages.

   o  Any reduction in PMTU due to a report contained in an ICMP packet
      is provisional until QUIC's loss detection algorithm determines
      that the packet is actually lost.

10.  Streams: QUIC's Data Structuring Abstraction

   Streams in QUIC provide a lightweight, ordered, and bidirectional
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   Streams can be created either by the client or the server, can
   concurrently send data interleaved with other streams, and can be
   cancelled.

   Data that is received on a stream is delivered in order within that
   stream, but there is no particular delivery order across streams.
   Transmit ordering among streams is left to the implementation.

   The creation and destruction of streams are expected to have minimal
   bandwidth and computational cost.  A single STREAM frame may create,
   carry data for, and terminate a stream, or a stream may last the
   entire duration of a connection.

   Streams are individually flow controlled, allowing an endpoint to
   limit memory commitment and to apply back pressure.  The creation of
   streams is also flow controlled, with each peer declaring the maximum
   stream ID it is willing to accept at a given time.

   An alternative view of QUIC streams is as an elastic "message"
   abstraction, similar to the way ephemeral streams are used in SST
   [SST], which may be a more appealing description for some
   applications.

10.1.  Stream Identifiers

   Streams are identified by an unsigned 32-bit integer, referred to as
   the Stream ID.  To avoid Stream ID collision, clients initiate
   streams using odd-numbered Stream IDs; streams initiated by the
   server use even-numbered Stream IDs.

   Stream ID 0 (0x0) is reserved for the cryptographic handshake.
   Stream 0 MUST NOT be used for application data, and is the first
   client-initiated stream.

   A QUIC endpoint cannot reuse a Stream ID.  Streams MUST be created in
   sequential order.  Open streams can be used in any order.  Streams
   that are used out of order result in lower-numbered streams in the
   same direction being counted as open.

   Stream IDs are usually encoded as a 32-bit integer, though the STREAM
   frame (Section 8.14) permits a shorter encoding when the leading bits
   of the stream ID are zero.

10.2.  Life of a Stream

   The semantics of QUIC streams is based on HTTP/2 streams, and the
   lifecycle of a QUIC stream therefore closely follows that of an
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   possibility of out-of-order delivery due to the use of multiple
   streams in QUIC.  The lifecycle of a QUIC stream is shown in the
   following figure and described below.

                               +--------+
                               |        |
                               |  idle  |
                               |        |
                               +--------+
                                    |
                           send/recv STREAM/RST
                                recv MSD/SB
                                    |
                                    v
                    recv FIN/  +--------+    send FIN/
                    recv RST   |        |    send RST
                     ,---------|  open  |-----------.
                    /          |        |            \
                   v           +--------+             v
            +----------+                          +----------+
            |   half   |                          |   half   |
            |  closed  |                          |  closed  |
            | (remote) |                          |  (local) |
            +----------+                          +----------+
                |                                        |
                |   send FIN/  +--------+    recv FIN/   |
                 \  send RST   |        |    recv RST   /
                  `----------->| closed |<-------------'
                               |        |
                               +--------+

      send:   endpoint sends this frame
      recv:   endpoint receives this frame

      STREAM: a STREAM frame
      FIN:    FIN flag in a STREAM frame
      RST:    RST_STREAM frame
      MSD:    MAX_STREAM_DATA frame
      SB:     STREAM_BLOCKED frame

                     Figure 11: Lifecycle of a stream

   Note that this diagram shows stream state transitions and the frames
   and flags that affect those transitions only.  It is possible for a
   single frame to cause two transitions: receiving a RST_STREAM frame,
   or a STREAM frame with the FIN flag cause the stream state to move
   from "idle" to "open" and then immediately to one of the "half-
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   The recipient of a frame that changes stream state will have a
   delayed view of the state of a stream while the frame is in transit.
   Endpoints do not coordinate the creation of streams; they are created
   unilaterally by either endpoint.  Endpoints can use acknowledgments
   to understand the peer's subjective view of stream state at any given
   time.

   In the absence of more specific guidance elsewhere in this document,
   implementations SHOULD treat the receipt of a frame that is not
   expressly permitted in the description of a state as a connection
   error (see Section 12).

10.2.1.  idle

   All streams start in the "idle" state.

   The following transitions are valid from this state:

   Sending or receiving a STREAM or RST_STREAM frame causes the
   identified stream to become "open".  The stream identifier for a new
   stream is selected as described in Section 10.1.  A RST_STREAM frame,
   or a STREAM frame with the FIN flag set also causes a stream to
   become "half-closed".

   An endpoint might receive MAX_STREAM_DATA or STREAM_BLOCKED frames on
   peer-initiated streams that are "idle" if there is loss or reordering
   of packets.  Receiving these frames also causes the stream to become
   "open".

   An endpoint MUST NOT send a STREAM or RST_STREAM frame for a stream
   ID that is higher than the peers advertised maximum stream ID (see
   Section 8.6).

10.2.2.  open

   A stream in the "open" state may be used by both peers to send frames
   of any type.  In this state, endpoints can send MAX_STREAM_DATA and
   MUST observe the value advertised by its receiving peer (see
   Section 11).

   Opening a stream causes all lower-numbered streams in the same
   direction to become open.  Thus, opening an odd-numbered stream
   causes all "idle", odd-numbered streams with a lower identifier to
   become open and the same applies to even numbered streams.  Endpoints
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   From the "open" state, either endpoint can send a frame with the FIN
   flag set, which causes the stream to transition into one of the
   "half-closed" states.  This flag can be set on the frame that opens
   the stream, which causes the stream to immediately become "half-
   closed".  Once an endpoint has completed sending all stream data and
   a STREAM frame with a FIN flag, the stream state becomes "half-closed
   (local)".  When an endpoint receives all stream data and a FIN flag
   the stream state becomes "half-closed (remote)".  An endpoint MUST
   NOT consider the stream state to have changed until all data has been
   sent or received.

   A RST_STREAM frame on an "open" stream also causes the stream to
   become "half-closed".  A stream that becomes "open" as a result of
   sending or receiving RST_STREAM immediately becomes "half-closed".
   Sending a RST_STREAM frame causes the stream to become "half-closed
   (local)"; receiving RST_STREAM causes the stream to become "half-
   closed (remote)".

   Any frame type that mentions a stream ID can be sent in this state.

10.2.3.  half-closed (local)

   A stream that is in the "half-closed (local)" state MUST NOT be used
   for sending on new STREAM frames.  Retransmission of data that has
   already been sent on STREAM frames is permitted.  An endpoint MAY
   also send MAX_STREAM_DATA and STOP_SENDING in this state.

   An endpoint that closes a stream MUST NOT send data beyond the final
   offset that it has chosen, see Section 10.2.5 for details.

   A stream transitions from this state to "closed" when a STREAM frame
   that contains a FIN flag is received and all prior data has arrived,
   or when a RST_STREAM frame is received.

   An endpoint can receive any frame that mentions a stream ID in this
   state.  Providing flow-control credit using MAX_STREAM_DATA frames is
   necessary to continue receiving flow-controlled frames.  In this
   state, a receiver MAY ignore MAX_STREAM_DATA frames for this stream,
   which might arrive for a short period after a frame bearing the FIN
   flag is sent.

10.2.4.  half-closed (remote)

   A stream is "half-closed (remote)" when the stream is no longer being
   used by the peer to send any data.  An endpoint will have either
   received all data that a peer has sent or will have received a
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   Once all data has been either received or discarded, a sender is no
   longer obligated to update the maximum received data for the
   connection.

   Due to reordering, an endpoint could continue receiving frames for
   the stream even after the stream is closed for sending.  Frames
   received after a peer closes a stream SHOULD be discarded.  An
   endpoint MAY choose to limit the period over which it ignores frames
   and treat frames that arrive after this time as being in error.

   An endpoint will know the final offset of the data it receives on a
   stream when it reaches the "half-closed (remote)" state, see
   Section 11.3 for details.

   A stream in this state can be used by the endpoint to send any frame
   that mentions a stream ID.  In this state, the endpoint MUST observe
   advertised stream and connection data limits (see Section 11).

   A stream transitions from this state to "closed" by completing
   transmission of all data.  This includes sending all data carried in
   STREAM frames including the terminal STREAM frame that contains a FIN
   flag.

   A stream also becomes "closed" when the endpoint sends a RST_STREAM
   frame.

10.2.5.  closed

   The "closed" state is the terminal state for a stream.

   Once a stream reaches this state, no frames can be sent that mention
   the stream.  Reordering might cause frames to be received after
   closing, see Section 10.2.4.

10.3.  Solicited State Transitions

   If an endpoint is no longer interested in the data being received, it
   MAY send a STOP_SENDING frame on a stream in the "open" or "half-
   closed (local)" state to prompt closure of the stream in the opposite
   direction.  This typically indicates that the receiving application
   is no longer reading from the stream, but is not a guarantee that
   incoming data will be ignored.

   STREAM frames received after sending STOP_SENDING are still counted
   toward the connection and stream flow-control windows, even though
   these frames will be discarded upon receipt.  This avoids potential
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   Upon receipt of a STOP_SENDING frame on a stream in the "open" or
   "half-closed (remote)" states, an endpoint MUST send a RST_STREAM
   with an error code of QUIC_RECEIVED_RST.  If the STOP_SENDING frame
   is received on a stream that is already in the "half-closed (local)"
   or "closed" states, a RST_STREAM frame MAY still be sent in order to
   cancel retransmission of previously-sent STREAM frames.

   While STOP_SENDING frames are retransmittable, an implementation MAY
   choose not to retransmit a lost STOP_SENDING frame if the stream has
   already been closed in the appropriate direction since the frame was
   first generated.  See Section 9.

10.4.  Stream Concurrency

   An endpoint limits the number of concurrently active incoming streams
   by adjusting the maximum stream ID.  An initial value is set in the
   transport parameters (see Section 7.3.1) and is subsequently
   increased by MAX_STREAM_ID frames (see Section 8.6).

   The maximum stream ID is specific to each endpoint and applies only
   to the peer that receives the setting.  That is, clients specify the
   maximum stream ID the server can initiate, and servers specify the
   maximum stream ID the client can initiate.  Each endpoint may respond
   on streams initiated by the other peer, regardless of whether it is
   permitted to initiated new streams.

   Endpoints MUST NOT exceed the limit set by their peer.  An endpoint
   that receives a STREAM frame with an ID greater than the limit it has
   sent MUST treat this as a stream error of type STREAM_ID_ERROR
   (Section 12), unless this is a result of a change in the initial
   offsets (see Section 7.3.2).

   A receiver MUST NOT renege on an advertisement; that is, once a
   receiver advertises a stream ID via a MAX_STREAM_ID frame, it MUST
   NOT subsequently advertise a smaller maximum ID.  A sender may
   receive MAX_STREAM_ID frames out of order; a sender MUST therefore
   ignore any MAX_STREAM_ID that does not increase the maximum.

10.5.  Sending and Receiving Data

   Once a stream is created, endpoints may use the stream to send and
   receive data.  Each endpoint may send a series of STREAM frames
   encapsulating data on a stream until the stream is terminated in that
   direction.  Streams are an ordered byte-stream abstraction, and they
   have no other structure within them.  STREAM frame boundaries are not
   expected to be preserved in retransmissions from the sender or during
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   When new data is to be sent on a stream, a sender MUST set the
   encapsulating STREAM frame's offset field to the stream offset of the
   first byte of this new data.  The first byte of data that is sent on
   a stream has the stream offset 0.  The largest offset delivered on a
   stream MUST be less than 2^64.  A receiver MUST ensure that received
   stream data is delivered to the application as an ordered byte-
   stream.  Data received out of order MUST be buffered for later
   delivery, as long as it is not in violation of the receiver's flow
   control limits.

   An endpoint MUST NOT send data on any stream without ensuring that it
   is within the data limits set by its peer.  The cryptographic
   handshake stream, Stream 0, is exempt from the connection-level data
   limits established by MAX_DATA.  Stream 0 is still subject to stream-
   level data limits and MAX_STREAM_DATA.

   Flow control is described in detail in Section 11, and congestion
   control is described in the companion document [QUIC-RECOVERY].

10.6.  Stream Prioritization

   Stream multiplexing has a significant effect on application
   performance if resources allocated to streams are correctly
   prioritized.  Experience with other multiplexed protocols, such as
   HTTP/2 [RFC7540], shows that effective prioritization strategies have
   a significant positive impact on performance.

   QUIC does not provide frames for exchanging prioritization
   information.  Instead it relies on receiving priority information
   from the application that uses QUIC.  Protocols that use QUIC are
   able to define any prioritization scheme that suits their application
   semantics.  A protocol might define explicit messages for signaling
   priority, such as those defined in HTTP/2; it could define rules that
   allow an endpoint to determine priority based on context; or it could
   leave the determination to the application.

   A QUIC implementation SHOULD provide ways in which an application can
   indicate the relative priority of streams.  When deciding which
   streams to dedicate resources to, QUIC SHOULD use the information
   provided by the application.  Failure to account for priority of
   streams can result in suboptimal performance.

   Stream priority is most relevant when deciding which stream data will
   be transmitted.  Often, there will be limits on what can be
   transmitted as a result of connection flow control or the current
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   Giving preference to the transmission of its own management frames
   ensures that the protocol functions efficiently.  That is,
   prioritizing frames other than STREAM frames ensures that loss
   recovery, congestion control, and flow control operate effectively.

   Stream 0 MUST be prioritized over other streams prior to the
   completion of the cryptographic handshake.  This includes the
   retransmission of the second flight of client handshake messages,
   that is, the TLS Finished and any client authentication messages.

   STREAM frames that are determined to be lost SHOULD be retransmitted
   before sending new data, unless application priorities indicate
   otherwise.  Retransmitting lost STREAM frames can fill in gaps, which
   allows the peer to consume already received data and free up flow
   control window.

11.  Flow Control

   It is necessary to limit the amount of data that a sender may have
   outstanding at any time, so as to prevent a fast sender from
   overwhelming a slow receiver, or to prevent a malicious sender from
   consuming significant resources at a receiver.  This section
   describes QUIC's flow-control mechanisms.

   QUIC employs a credit-based flow-control scheme similar to HTTP/2's
   flow control [RFC7540].  A receiver advertises the number of octets
   it is prepared to receive on a given stream and for the entire
   connection.  This leads to two levels of flow control in QUIC: (i)
   Connection flow control, which prevents senders from exceeding a
   receiver's buffer capacity for the connection, and (ii) Stream flow
   control, which prevents a single stream from consuming the entire
   receive buffer for a connection.

   A receiver sends MAX_DATA or MAX_STREAM_DATA frames to the sender to
   advertise additional credit by sending the absolute byte offset in
   the connection or stream which it is willing to receive.

   A receiver MAY advertise a larger offset at any point by sending
   MAX_DATA or MAX_STREAM_DATA frames.  A receiver MUST NOT renege on an
   advertisement; that is, once a receiver advertises an offset, it MUST
   NOT subsequently advertise a smaller offset.  A sender could receive
   MAX_DATA or MAX_STREAM_DATA frames out of order; a sender MUST
   therefore ignore any flow control offset that does not move the
   window forward.

   A receiver MUST close the connection with a FLOW_CONTROL_ERROR error
   (Section 12) if the peer violates the advertised connection or stream
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   A sender MUST send BLOCKED frames to indicate it has data to write
   but is blocked by lack of connection or stream flow control credit.
   BLOCKED frames are expected to be sent infrequently in common cases,
   but they are considered useful for debugging and monitoring purposes.

   A receiver advertises credit for a stream by sending a
   MAX_STREAM_DATA frame with the Stream ID set appropriately.  A
   receiver could use the current offset of data consumed to determine
   the flow control offset to be advertised.  A receiver MAY send
   MAX_STREAM_DATA frames in multiple packets in order to make sure that
   the sender receives an update before running out of flow control
   credit, even if one of the packets is lost.

   Connection flow control is a limit to the total bytes of stream data
   sent in STREAM frames on all streams.  A receiver advertises credit
   for a connection by sending a MAX_DATA frame.  A receiver maintains a
   cumulative sum of bytes received on all streams, which are used to
   check for flow control violations.  A receiver might use a sum of
   bytes consumed on all contributing streams to determine the maximum
   data limit to be advertised.

11.1.  Edge Cases and Other Considerations

   There are some edge cases which must be considered when dealing with
   stream and connection level flow control.  Given enough time, both
   endpoints must agree on flow control state.  If one end believes it
   can send more than the other end is willing to receive, the
   connection will be torn down when too much data arrives.

   Conversely if a sender believes it is blocked, while endpoint B
   expects more data can be received, then the connection can be in a
   deadlock, with the sender waiting for a MAX_DATA or MAX_STREAM_DATA
   frame which will never come.

   On receipt of a RST_STREAM frame, an endpoint will tear down state
   for the matching stream and ignore further data arriving on that
   stream.  This could result in the endpoints getting out of sync,
   since the RST_STREAM frame may have arrived out of order and there
   may be further bytes in flight.  The data sender would have counted
   the data against its connection level flow control budget, but a
   receiver that has not received these bytes would not know to include
   them as well.  The receiver must learn the number of bytes that were
   sent on the stream to make the same adjustment in its connection flow
   controller.

   To avoid this de-synchronization, a RST_STREAM sender MUST include
   the final byte offset sent on the stream in the RST_STREAM frame.  On
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   bytes were sent on that stream before the RST_STREAM frame, and the
   receiver MUST use the final offset to account for all bytes sent on
   the stream in its connection level flow controller.

11.1.1.  Response to a RST_STREAM

   RST_STREAM terminates one direction of a stream abruptly.  Whether
   any action or response can or should be taken on the data already
   received is an application-specific issue, but it will often be the
   case that upon receipt of a RST_STREAM an endpoint will choose to
   stop sending data in its own direction.  If the sender of a
   RST_STREAM wishes to explicitly state that no future data will be
   processed, that endpoint MAY send a STOP_SENDING frame at the same
   time.

11.1.2.  Data Limit Increments

   This document leaves when and how many bytes to advertise in a
   MAX_DATA or MAX_STREAM_DATA to implementations, but offers a few
   considerations.  These frames contribute to connection overhead.
   Therefore frequently sending frames with small changes is
   undesirable.  At the same time, infrequent updates require larger
   increments to limits if blocking is to be avoided.  Thus, larger
   updates require a receiver to commit to larger resource commitments.
   Thus there is a tradeoff between resource commitment and overhead
   when determining how large a limit is advertised.

   A receiver MAY use an autotuning mechanism to tune the frequency and
   amount that it increases data limits based on a roundtrip time
   estimate and the rate at which the receiving application consumes
   data, similar to common TCP implementations.

11.2.  Stream Limit Increment

   As with flow control, this document leaves when and how many streams
   to make available to a peer via MAX_STREAM_ID to implementations, but
   offers a few considerations.  MAX_STREAM_ID frames constitute minimal
   overhead, while withholding MAX_STREAM_ID frames can prevent the peer
   from using the available parallelism.

   Implementations will likely want to increase the maximum stream ID as
   peer-initiated streams close.  A receiver MAY also advance the
   maximum stream ID based on current activity, system conditions, and
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11.2.1.  Blocking on Flow Control

   If a sender does not receive a MAX_DATA or MAX_STREAM_DATA frame when
   it has run out of flow control credit, the sender will be blocked and
   MUST send a BLOCKED or STREAM_BLOCKED frame.  These frames are
   expected to be useful for debugging at the receiver; they do not
   require any other action.  A receiver SHOULD NOT wait for a BLOCKED
   or STREAM_BLOCKED frame before sending MAX_DATA or MAX_STREAM_DATA,
   since doing so will mean that a sender is unable to send for an
   entire round trip.

   For smooth operation of the congestion controller, it is generally
   considered best to not let the sender go into quiescence if
   avoidable.  To avoid blocking a sender, and to reasonably account for
   the possibiity of loss, a receiver should send a MAX_DATA or
   MAX_STREAM_DATA frame at least two roundtrips before it expects the
   sender to get blocked.

   A sender sends a single BLOCKED or STREAM_BLOCKED frame only once
   when it reaches a data limit.  A sender MUST NOT send multiple
   BLOCKED or STREAM_BLOCKED frames for the same data limit, unless the
   original frame is determined to be lost.  Another BLOCKED or
   STREAM_BLOCKED frame can be sent after the data limit is increased.

11.3.  Stream Final Offset

   The final offset is the count of the number of octets that are
   transmitted on a stream.  For a stream that is reset, the final
   offset is carried explicitly in the RST_STREAM frame.  Otherwise, the
   final offset is the offset of the end of the data carried in STREAM
   frame marked with a FIN flag.

   An endpoint will know the final offset for a stream when the stream
   enters the "half-closed (remote)" state.  However, if there is
   reordering or loss, an endpoint might learn the final offset prior to
   entering this state if it is carried on a STREAM frame.

   An endpoint MUST NOT send data on a stream at or beyond the final
   offset.

   Once a final offset for a stream is known, it cannot change.  If a
   RST_STREAM or STREAM frame causes the final offset to change for a
   stream, an endpoint SHOULD respond with a FINAL_OFFSET_ERROR error
   (see Section 12).  A receiver SHOULD treat receipt of data at or
   beyond the final offset as a FINAL_OFFSET_ERROR error, even after a
   stream is closed.  Generating these errors is not mandatory, but only
   because requiring that an endpoint generate these errors also means




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   that the endpoint needs to maintain the final offset state for closed
   streams, which could mean a significant state commitment.

12.  Error Handling

   An endpoint that detects an error SHOULD signal the existence of that
   error to its peer.  Errors can affect an entire connection (see
   Section 12.1), or a single stream (see Section 12.2).

   The most appropriate error code (Section 12.3) SHOULD be included in
   the frame that signals the error.  Where this specification
   identifies error conditions, it also identifies the error code that
   is used.

   A stateless reset (Section 7.8) is not suitable for any error that
   can be signaled with a CONNECTION_CLOSE or RST_STREAM frame.  A
   stateless reset MUST NOT be used by an endpoint that has the state
   necessary to send a frame on the connection.

12.1.  Connection Errors

   Errors that result in the connection being unusable, such as an
   obvious violation of protocol semantics or corruption of state that
   affects an entire connection, MUST be signaled using a
   CONNECTION_CLOSE frame (Section 8.3).  An endpoint MAY close the
   connection in this manner, even if the error only affects a single
   stream.

   A CONNECTION_CLOSE frame could be sent in a packet that is lost.  An
   endpoint SHOULD be prepared to retransmit a packet containing a
   CONNECTION_CLOSE frame if it receives more packets on a terminated
   connection.  Limiting the number of retransmissions and the time over
   which this final packet is sent limits the effort expended on
   terminated connections.

   An endpoint that chooses not to retransmit packets containing
   CONNECTION_CLOSE risks a peer missing the first such packet.  The
   only mechanism available to an endpoint that continues to receive
   data for a terminated connection is to use the stateless reset
   process (Section 7.8).

   An endpoint that receives an invalid CONNECTION_CLOSE frame MUST NOT
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12.2.  Stream Errors

   If the error affects a single stream, but otherwise leaves the
   connection in a recoverable state, the endpoint can send a RST_STREAM
   frame (Section 8.2) with an appropriate error code to terminate just
   the affected stream.

   Stream 0 is critical to the functioning of the entire connection.  If
   stream 0 is closed with either a RST_STREAM or STREAM frame bearing
   the FIN flag, an endpoint MUST generate a connection error of type
   PROTOCOL_VIOLATION.

   Some application protocols make other streams critical to that
   protocol.  An application protocol does not need to inform the
   transport that a stream is critical; it can instead generate
   appropriate errors in response to being notified that the critical
   stream is closed.

   An endpoint MAY send a RST_STREAM frame in the same packet as a
   CONNECTION_CLOSE frame.

12.3.  Error Codes

   Error codes are 32 bits long, with the first two bits indicating the
   source of the error code:

   0x00000000-0x3FFFFFFF:  Application-specific error codes.  Defined by
      each application-layer protocol.

   0x40000000-0x7FFFFFFF:  Reserved for host-local error codes.  These
      codes MUST NOT be sent to a peer, but MAY be used in API return
      codes and logs.

   0x80000000-0xBFFFFFFF:  QUIC transport error codes, including packet
      protection errors.  Applicable to all uses of QUIC.

   0xC0000000-0xFFFFFFFF:  Cryptographic error codes.  Defined by the
      cryptographic handshake protocol in use.

   This section lists the defined QUIC transport error codes that may be
   used in a CONNECTION_CLOSE or RST_STREAM frame.  Error codes share a
   common code space.  Some error codes apply only to either streams or
   the entire connection and have no defined semantics in the other
   context.

   NO_ERROR (0x80000000):  An endpoint uses this with CONNECTION_CLOSE
      to signal that the connection is being closed abruptly in the
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      signal that the stream is no longer wanted or in response to the
      receipt of a RST_STREAM for that stream.

   INTERNAL_ERROR (0x80000001):  The endpoint encountered an internal
      error and cannot continue with the connection.

   CANCELLED (0x80000002):  An endpoint sends this with RST_STREAM to
      indicate that the stream is not wanted and that no application
      action was taken for the stream.  This error code is not valid for
      use with CONNECTION_CLOSE.

   FLOW_CONTROL_ERROR (0x80000003):  An endpoint received more data than
      it permitted in its advertised data limits (see Section 11).

   STREAM_ID_ERROR (0x80000004):  An endpoint received a frame for a
      stream identifier that exceeded its advertised maximum stream ID.

   STREAM_STATE_ERROR (0x80000005):  An endpoint received a frame for a
      stream that was not in a state that permitted that frame (see
      Section 10.2).

   FINAL_OFFSET_ERROR (0x80000006):  An endpoint received a STREAM frame
      containing data that exceeded the previously established final
      offset.  Or an endpoint received a RST_STREAM frame containing a
      final offset that was lower than the maximum offset of data that
      was already received.  Or an endpoint received a RST_STREAM frame
      containing a different final offset to the one already
      established.

   FRAME_FORMAT_ERROR (0x80000007):  An endpoint received a frame that
      was badly formatted.  For instance, an empty STREAM frame that
      omitted the FIN flag, or an ACK frame that has more acknowledgment
      ranges than the remainder of the packet could carry.  This is a
      generic error code; an endpoint SHOULD use the more specific frame
      format error codes (0x800001XX) if possible.

   TRANSPORT_PARAMETER_ERROR (0x80000008):  An endpoint received
      transport parameters that were badly formatted, included an
      invalid value, was absent even though it is mandatory, was present
      though it is forbidden, or is otherwise in error.

   VERSION_NEGOTIATION_ERROR (0x80000009):  An endpoint received
      transport parameters that contained version negotiation parameters
      that disagreed with the version negotiation that it performed.
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   PROTOCOL_VIOLATION (0x8000000A):  An endpoint detected an error with
      protocol compliance that was not covered by more specific error
      codes.

   QUIC_RECEIVED_RST (0x80000035):  Terminating stream because peer sent
      a RST_STREAM or STOP_SENDING.

   FRAME_ERROR (0x800001XX):  An endpoint detected an error in a
      specific frame type.  The frame type is included as the last octet
      of the error code.  For example, an error in a MAX_STREAM_ID frame
      would be indicated with the code (0x80000106).

13.  Security and Privacy Considerations

13.1.  Spoofed ACK Attack

   An attacker receives an STK from the server and then releases the IP
   address on which it received the STK.  The attacker may, in the
   future, spoof this same address (which now presumably addresses a
   different endpoint), and initiate a 0-RTT connection with a server on
   the victim's behalf.  The attacker then spoofs ACK frames to the
   server which cause the server to potentially drown the victim in
   data.

   There are two possible mitigations to this attack.  The simplest one
   is that a server can unilaterally create a gap in packet-number
   space.  In the non-attack scenario, the client will send an ACK frame
   with the larger value for largest acknowledged.  In the attack
   scenario, the attacker could acknowledge a packet in the gap.  If the
   server sees an acknowledgment for a packet that was never sent, the
   connection can be aborted.

   The second mitigation is that the server can require that
   acknowledgments for sent packets match the encryption level of the
   sent packet.  This mitigation is useful if the connection has an
   ephemeral forward-secure key that is generated and used for every new
   connection.  If a packet sent is protected with a forward-secure key,
   then any acknowledgments that are received for them MUST also be
   forward-secure protected.  Since the attacker will not have the
   forward secure key, the attacker will not be able to generate
   forward-secure protected packets with ACK frames.

13.2.  Slowloris Attacks

   The attacks commonly known as Slowloris [SLOWLORIS] try to keep many
   connections to the target endpoint open and hold them open as long as
   possible.  These attacks can be executed against a QUIC endpoint by
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   closed for inactivity.  This might involve sending small amounts of
   data, gradually opening flow control windows in order to control the
   sender rate, or manufacturing ACK frames that simulate a high loss
   rate.

   QUIC deployments SHOULD provide mitigations for the Slowloris
   attacks, such as increasing the maximum number of clients the server
   will allow, limiting the number of connections a single IP address is
   allowed to make, imposing restrictions on the minimum transfer speed
   a connection is allowed to have, and restricting the length of time
   an endpoint is allowed to stay connected.

13.3.  Stream Fragmentation and Reassembly Attacks

   An adversarial endpoint might intentionally fragment the data on
   stream buffers in order to cause disproportionate memory commitment.
   An adversarial endpoint could open a stream and send some STREAM
   frames containing arbitrary fragments of the stream content.

   The attack is mitigated if flow control windows correspond to
   available memory.  However, some receivers will over-commit memory
   and advertise flow control offsets in the aggregate that exceed
   actual available memory.  The over-commitment strategy can lead to
   better performance when endpoints are well behaved, but renders
   endpoints vulnerable to the stream fragmentation attack.

   QUIC deployments SHOULD provide mitigations against the stream
   fragmentation attack.  Mitigations could consist of avoiding over-
   committing memory, delaying reassembly of STREAM frames, implementing
   heuristics based on the age and duration of reassembly holes, or some
   combination.

13.4.  Stream Commitment Attack

   An adversarial endpoint can open lots of streams, exhausting state on
   an endpoint.  The adversarial endpoint could repeat the process on a
   large number of connections, in a manner similar to SYN flooding
   attacks in TCP.

   Normally, clients will open streams sequentially, as explained in
   Section 10.1.  However, when several streams are initiated at short
   intervals, transmission error may cause STREAM DATA frames opening
   streams to be received out of sequence.  A receiver is obligated to
   open intervening streams if a higher-numbered stream ID is received.
   Thus, on a new connection, opening stream 2000001 opens 1 million
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   The number of active streams is limited by the concurrent stream
   limit transport parameter, as explained in Section 10.4.  If chosen
   judisciously, this limit mitigates the effect of the stream
   commitment attack.  However, setting the limit too low could affect
   performance when applications expect to open large number of streams.

14.  IANA Considerations

14.1.  QUIC Transport Parameter Registry

   IANA [SHALL add/has added] a registry for "QUIC Transport Parameters"
   under a "QUIC Protocol" heading.

   The "QUIC Transport Parameters" registry governs a 16-bit space.
   This space is split into two spaces that are governed by different
   policies.  Values with the first byte in the range 0x00 to 0xfe (in
   hexadecimal) are assigned via the Specification Required policy
   [RFC5226].  Values with the first byte 0xff are reserved for Private
   Use [RFC5226].

   Registrations MUST include the following fields:

   Value:  The numeric value of the assignment (registrations will be
      between 0x0000 and 0xfeff).

   Parameter Name:  A short mnemonic for the parameter.

   Specification:  A reference to a publicly available specification for
      the value.

   The nominated expert(s) verify that a specification exists and is
   readily accessible.  The expert(s) are encouraged to be biased
   towards approving registrations unless they are abusive, frivolous,
   or actively harmful (not merely aesthetically displeasing, or
   architecturally dubious).

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           +--------+-------------------------+---------------+
           | Value  | Parameter Name          | Specification |
           +--------+-------------------------+---------------+
           | 0x0000 | initial_max_stream_data | Section 7.3.1 |
           |        |                         |               |
           | 0x0001 | initial_max_data        | Section 7.3.1 |
           |        |                         |               |
           | 0x0002 | initial_max_stream_id   | Section 7.3.1 |
           |        |                         |               |
           | 0x0003 | idle_timeout            | Section 7.3.1 |
           |        |                         |               |
           | 0x0004 | omit_connection_id      | Section 7.3.1 |
           |        |                         |               |
           | 0x0005 | max_packet_size         | Section 7.3.1 |
           |        |                         |               |
           | 0x0006 | stateless_reset_token   | Section 7.3.1 |
           +--------+-------------------------+---------------+

            Table 4: Initial QUIC Transport Parameters Entries

15.  References

15.1.  Normative References

   [I-D.ietf-tls-tls13]
              Rescorla, E., "The Transport Layer Security (TLS) Protocol
              Version 1.3", draft-ietf-tls-tls13-21 (work in progress),
              July 2017.

   [QUIC-RECOVERY]
              Iyengar, J., Ed. and I. Swett, Ed., "QUIC Loss Detection
              and Congestion Control", draft-ietf-quic-recovery (work in
              progress), August 2017.

   [QUIC-TLS]
              Thomson, M., Ed. and S. Turner, Ed., "Using Transport
              Layer Security (TLS) to Secure QUIC", draft-ietf-quic-tls
              (work in progress), August 2017.

   [RFC1191]  Mogul, J. and S. Deering, "Path MTU discovery", RFC 1191,
              DOI 10.17487/RFC1191, November 1990,
              <http://www.rfc-editor.org/info/rfc1191>.

   [RFC1981]  McCann, J., Deering, S., and J. Mogul, "Path MTU Discovery
              for IP version 6", RFC 1981, DOI 10.17487/RFC1981, August
              1996, <http://www.rfc-editor.org/info/rfc1981>.





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   [RFC2119]  Bradner, S., "Key words for use in RFCs to Indicate
              Requirement Levels", BCP 14, RFC 2119,
              DOI 10.17487/RFC2119, March 1997,
              <http://www.rfc-editor.org/info/rfc2119>.

   [RFC3629]  Yergeau, F., "UTF-8, a transformation format of ISO
              10646", STD 63, RFC 3629, DOI 10.17487/RFC3629, November
              2003, <http://www.rfc-editor.org/info/rfc3629>.

   [RFC4086]  Eastlake 3rd, D., Schiller, J., and S. Crocker,
              "Randomness Requirements for Security", BCP 106, RFC 4086,
              DOI 10.17487/RFC4086, June 2005,
              <http://www.rfc-editor.org/info/rfc4086>.

   [RFC4821]  Mathis, M. and J. Heffner, "Packetization Layer Path MTU
              Discovery", RFC 4821, DOI 10.17487/RFC4821, March 2007,
              <http://www.rfc-editor.org/info/rfc4821>.

   [RFC5226]  Narten, T. and H. Alvestrand, "Guidelines for Writing an
              IANA Considerations Section in RFCs", RFC 5226,
              DOI 10.17487/RFC5226, May 2008,
              <http://www.rfc-editor.org/info/rfc5226>.

15.2.  Informative References

   [EARLY-DESIGN]
              Roskind, J., "QUIC: Multiplexed Transport Over UDP",
              December 2013, <https://goo.gl/dMVtFi>.

   [RFC2104]  Krawczyk, H., Bellare, M., and R. Canetti, "HMAC: Keyed-
              Hashing for Message Authentication", RFC 2104,
              DOI 10.17487/RFC2104, February 1997,
              <http://www.rfc-editor.org/info/rfc2104>.

   [RFC2360]  Scott, G., "Guide for Internet Standards Writers", BCP 22,
              RFC 2360, DOI 10.17487/RFC2360, June 1998,
              <http://www.rfc-editor.org/info/rfc2360>.

   [RFC5869]  Krawczyk, H. and P. Eronen, "HMAC-based Extract-and-Expand
              Key Derivation Function (HKDF)", RFC 5869,
              DOI 10.17487/RFC5869, May 2010,
              <http://www.rfc-editor.org/info/rfc5869>.

   [RFC6824]  Ford, A., Raiciu, C., Handley, M., and O. Bonaventure,
              "TCP Extensions for Multipath Operation with Multiple
              Addresses", RFC 6824, DOI 10.17487/RFC6824, January 2013,
              <http://www.rfc-editor.org/info/rfc6824>.




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   [RFC7301]  Friedl, S., Popov, A., Langley, A., and E. Stephan,
              "Transport Layer Security (TLS) Application-Layer Protocol
              Negotiation Extension", RFC 7301, DOI 10.17487/RFC7301,
              July 2014, <http://www.rfc-editor.org/info/rfc7301>.

   [RFC7540]  Belshe, M., Peon, R., and M. Thomson, Ed., "Hypertext
              Transfer Protocol Version 2 (HTTP/2)", RFC 7540,
              DOI 10.17487/RFC7540, May 2015,
              <http://www.rfc-editor.org/info/rfc7540>.

   [SLOWLORIS]
              RSnake Hansen, R., "Welcome to Slowloris...", June 2009,
              <https://web.archive.org/web/20150315054838/
              http://ha.ckers.org/slowloris/>.

   [SST]      Ford, B., "Structured streams", ACM SIGCOMM Computer
              Communication Review Vol. 37, pp. 361,
              DOI 10.1145/1282427.1282421, October 2007.

15.3.  URIs

   [1] https://github.com/quicwg/base-drafts/wiki/QUIC-Versions

Appendix A.  Contributors

   The original authors of this specification were Ryan Hamilton, Jana
   Iyengar, Ian Swett, and Alyssa Wilk.

   The original design and rationale behind this protocol draw
   significantly from work by Jim Roskind [EARLY-DESIGN].  In
   alphabetical order, the contributors to the pre-IETF QUIC project at
   Google are: Britt Cyr, Jeremy Dorfman, Ryan Hamilton, Jana Iyengar,
   Fedor Kouranov, Charles Krasic, Jo Kulik, Adam Langley, Jim Roskind,
   Robbie Shade, Satyam Shekhar, Cherie Shi, Ian Swett, Raman Tenneti,
   Victor Vasiliev, Antonio Vicente, Patrik Westin, Alyssa Wilk, Dale
   Worley, Fan Yang, Dan Zhang, Daniel Ziegler.

Appendix B.  Acknowledgments

   Special thanks are due to the following for helping shape pre-IETF
   QUIC and its deployment: Chris Bentzel, Misha Efimov, Roberto Peon,
   Alistair Riddoch, Siddharth Vijayakrishnan, and Assar Westerlund.

   This document has benefited immensely from various private
   discussions and public ones on the quic@ietf.org and proto-
   quic@chromium.org mailing lists.  Our thanks to all.





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Appendix C.  Change Log

      *RFC Editor's Note:* Please remove this section prior to
      publication of a final version of this document.

   Issue and pull request numbers are listed with a leading octothorp.

C.1.  Since draft-ietf-quic-transport-04

   o  Introduce STOP_SENDING frame, RST_STREAM only resets in one
      direction (#165)

   o  Removed GOAWAY; application protocols are responsible for graceful
      shutdown (#696)

   o  Reduced the number of error codes (#96, #177, #184, #211)

   o  Version validation fields can't move or change (#121)

   o  Removed versions from the transport parameters in a
      NewSessionTicket message (#547)

   o  Clarify the meaning of "bytes in flight" (#550)

   o  Public reset is now stateless reset and not visible to the path
      (#215)

   o  Reordered bits and fields in STREAM frame (#620)

   o  Clarifications to the stream state machine (#572, #571)

   o  Increased the maximum length of the Largest Acknowledged field in
      ACK frames to 64 bits (#629)

   o  truncate_connection_id is renamed to omit_connection_id (#659)

   o  CONNECTION_CLOSE terminates the connection like TCP RST (#330,
      #328)

   o  Update labels used in HKDF-Expand-Label to match TLS 1.3 (#642)

C.2.  Since draft-ietf-quic-transport-03

   o  Change STREAM and RST_STREAM layout

   o  Add MAX_STREAM_ID settings





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C.3.  Since draft-ietf-quic-transport-02

   o  The size of the initial packet payload has a fixed minimum (#267,
      #472)

   o  Define when Version Negotiation packets are ignored (#284, #294,
      #241, #143, #474)

   o  The 64-bit FNV-1a algorithm is used for integrity protection of
      unprotected packets (#167, #480, #481, #517)

   o  Rework initial packet types to change how the connection ID is
      chosen (#482, #442, #493)

   o  No timestamps are forbidden in unprotected packets (#542, #429)

   o  Cryptographic handshake is now on stream 0 (#456)

   o  Remove congestion control exemption for cryptographic handshake
      (#248, #476)

   o  Version 1 of QUIC uses TLS; a new version is needed to use a
      different handshake protocol (#516)

   o  STREAM frames have a reduced number of offset lengths (#543, #430)

   o  Split some frames into separate connection- and stream- level
      frames (#443)

      *  WINDOW_UPDATE split into MAX_DATA and MAX_STREAM_DATA (#450)

      *  BLOCKED split to match WINDOW_UPDATE split (#454)

      *  Define STREAM_ID_NEEDED frame (#455)

   o  A NEW_CONNECTION_ID frame supports connection migration without
      linkability (#232, #491, #496)

   o  Transport parameters for 0-RTT are retained from a previous
      connection (#405, #513, #512)

      *  A client in 0-RTT no longer required to reset excess streams
         (#425, #479)

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C.4.  Since draft-ietf-quic-transport-01

   o  Defined short and long packet headers (#40, #148, #361)

   o  Defined a versioning scheme and stable fields (#51, #361)

   o  Define reserved version values for "greasing" negotiation (#112,
      #278)

   o  The initial packet number is randomized (#35, #283)

   o  Narrow the packet number encoding range requirement (#67, #286,
      #299, #323, #356)

   o  Defined client address validation (#52, #118, #120, #275)

   o  Define transport parameters as a TLS extension (#49, #122)

   o  SCUP and COPT parameters are no longer valid (#116, #117)

   o  Transport parameters for 0-RTT are either remembered from before,
      or assume default values (#126)

   o  The server chooses connection IDs in its final flight (#119, #349,
      #361)

   o  The server echoes the Connection ID and packet number fields when
      sending a Version Negotiation packet (#133, #295, #244)

   o  Defined a minimum packet size for the initial handshake packet
      from the client (#69, #136, #139, #164)

   o  Path MTU Discovery (#64, #106)

   o  The initial handshake packet from the client needs to fit in a
      single packet (#338)

   o  Forbid acknowledgment of packets containing only ACK and PADDING
      (#291)

   o  Require that frames are processed when packets are acknowledged
      (#381, #341)

   o  Removed the STOP_WAITING frame (#66)

   o  Don't require retransmission of old timestamps for lost ACK frames
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   o  Clarified that frames are not retransmitted, but the information
      in them can be (#157, #298)

   o  Error handling definitions (#335)

   o  Split error codes into four sections (#74)

   o  Forbid the use of Public Reset where CONNECTION_CLOSE is possible
      (#289)

   o  Define packet protection rules (#336)

   o  Require that stream be entirely delivered or reset, including
      acknowledgment of all STREAM frames or the RST_STREAM, before it
      closes (#381)

   o  Remove stream reservation from state machine (#174, #280)

   o  Only stream 1 does not contribute to connection-level flow control
      (#204)

   o  Stream 1 counts towards the maximum concurrent stream limit (#201,
      #282)

   o  Remove connection-level flow control exclusion for some streams
      (except 1) (#246)

   o  RST_STREAM affects connection-level flow control (#162, #163)

   o  Flow control accounting uses the maximum data offset on each
      stream, rather than bytes received (#378)

   o  Moved length-determining fields to the start of STREAM and ACK
      (#168, #277)

   o  Added the ability to pad between frames (#158, #276)

   o  Remove error code and reason phrase from GOAWAY (#352, #355)

   o  GOAWAY includes a final stream number for both directions (#347)

   o  Error codes for RST_STREAM and CONNECTION_CLOSE are now at a
      consistent offset (#249)

   o  Defined priority as the responsibility of the application protocol
      (#104, #303)





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C.5.  Since draft-ietf-quic-transport-00

   o  Replaced DIVERSIFICATION_NONCE flag with KEY_PHASE flag

   o  Defined versioning

   o  Reworked description of packet and frame layout

   o  Error code space is divided into regions for each component

   o  Use big endian for all numeric values

C.6.  Since draft-hamilton-quic-transport-protocol-01

   o  Adopted as base for draft-ietf-quic-tls

   o  Updated authors/editors list

   o  Added IANA Considerations section

   o  Moved Contributors and Acknowledgments to appendices

Authors' Addresses

   Jana Iyengar (editor)
   Google

   Email: jri@google.com


   Martin Thomson (editor)
   Mozilla

   Email: martin.thomson@gmail.com

















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