This object is the initial value used for the start-up T1 timer on this specific association, the timer bounding how long it waits for an INIT or COOKIE-ECHO acknowledgment. This is the per-association tuning knob behind the device-wide ceSctpStatT1expired counter: if setup to a particular slow-to-respond peer keeps expiring T1, raising this value for just that association can stop unnecessary retries without touching any other peer. Doubling this from a default like 1000 milliseconds to 2000 for an association to a peer on a high-latency satellite backhaul would reduce spurious T1 expirations caused purely by round-trip delay.