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plural ACKs
(networking) An acknowledgement either of a packet or a message received from a network. examples
third-person singular simple present ACKs, present participle ACKing, simple past and past participle ACKed
(networking) To acknowledge a packet or a message received from a network. quotations examples
Yet, with full ECN nonce functionality and totally unreliable behaviour, ACKing individual packets only would require the receiver to maintain state that could theoretically grow without bounds.
2005, Michael Welzl, Network Congestion Control: Managing Internet Traffic, page 150