Re: [PATCH 5/7] [DCCP]: Introduce two new socket options

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Quoting Eddie Kohler:
|  > Why burden the application programmer to handcode an estimation of the average each
|  > time? I can not see a justification for this, certainly not for CCIDs which
|  > are intended to be used with (on average) fixed packet sizes.
|  > 
|  > I think that a priority is to keep the user programming interface as simple as
|  > possible -- like UDP's interface, as stated in RFC 4340.
|  
|  But if DCCP_SOCKOPT_TX_PACKET_SIZE defaults to the MSS, which the drafts 
|  explicitly allow, then there's no burden on the application programmer.
This is a good input and  should be related to patch 6/7 in which the default setting is
the standard size packet of 256 bytes; so maybe we should use MSS (or an estimate of it) there.
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