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Packets marked ECT(0)

Echo the ECN counts back in ACK frames carrying an ECN section (type 0x03). §13.4.1 makes this a conditional requirement — an endpoint MUST report the markings it receives "if these are accessible", and explicitly permits an endpoint with no access to the ECN field to report nothing. So counts coming back is a pass, and silence is inconclusive rather than a failure: it cannot be told apart from a path that stripped the codepoint in transit.

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q-ecn · RFC 9000 §13.4 · correctness · layer quic · udp/4468 · MUST

Passing this means: Rejected something invalid, with the code the RFC names.

Anomaly type: transport

How each client answered

ClientVersionVerdictWhat happened
curl ngtcp2/1.11.0 Inconclusive The run did not exercise this test: ECN validation failed: packets sent marked ECT(0) came back acknowledged without ECN counts, so the marking was disabled. Whether the peer declined to report or the path rewrote the codepoint cannot be told apart from this end.
quinn noq fork Inconclusive The run did not exercise this test: ECN validation failed: packets sent marked ECT(0) came back acknowledged without ECN counts, so the marking was disabled. Whether the peer declined to report or the path rewrote the codepoint cannot be told apart from this end.
aioquic 1.3.0 Inconclusive The run did not exercise this test: ECN validation failed: packets sent marked ECT(0) came back acknowledged without ECN counts, so the marking was disabled. Whether the peer declined to report or the path rewrote the codepoint cannot be told apart from this end.
chromium build 1223 Pass Responded correctly: echoed ECN counts back in its ACKs: 13 ECT(0), 0 ECT(1), 0 ECN-CE.
quic-go quic-go v0.61.0 Pass Responded correctly: echoed ECN counts back in its ACKs: 5 ECT(0), 0 ECT(1), 0 ECN-CE.
quiche 0.30.0 Inconclusive The run did not exercise this test: ECN validation failed: packets sent marked ECT(0) came back acknowledged without ECN counts, so the marking was disabled. Whether the peer declined to report or the path rewrote the codepoint cannot be told apart from this end.
neqo 0.31.1 Inconclusive The run did not exercise this test: ECN validation failed: packets sent marked ECT(0) came back acknowledged without ECN counts, so the marking was disabled. Whether the peer declined to report or the path rewrote the codepoint cannot be told apart from this end.

What the clause requires

Echo the ECN counts back in ACK frames carrying an ECN section (type 0x03). §13.4.1 makes this a conditional requirement — an endpoint MUST report the markings it receives "if these are accessible", and explicitly permits an endpoint with no access to the ECN field to report nothing. So counts coming back is a pass, and silence is inconclusive rather than a failure: it cannot be told apart from a path that stripped the codepoint in transit.

Judged against RFC 9000.

Run this one yourself

Every test is reachable from your own client. Nothing here needs an account.

curl -s https://conformance.pqcrypta.com/catalog.json \
  | jq '.tests[] | select(.id == "q-ecn")'

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