Re:Tcpls: Modern Transport Services with TCP and TLS
by unmole on Sunday June 05, 2022 @04:16PM
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> is it an aggressive standardization campaign by one interested party
Everyone from FB to Microsoft to even Huawei wanted QUIC. It's was not something that only Google was interested in. Hell, the primary author left Google well before the WG was done.
> But historically RFCs were built on practice, not the other way around.
Right from the early drafts, there have been multiple independent QUIC implementations constantly being tested. There was plenty of working code before there was rough consensus.
> standardizing the semantics of http separate from the physical transport
Everyone from FB to Microsoft to even Huawei wanted QUIC. It's was not something that only Google was interested in. Hell, the primary author left Google well before the WG was done.
> But historically RFCs were built on practice, not the other way around.
Right from the early drafts, there have been multiple independent QUIC implementations constantly being tested. There was plenty of working code before there was rough consensus.
> standardizing the semantics of http separate from the physical transport
What actual semantics of HTTP changed with QUIC?