[ih] QUIC, was "The Internet runs on Proposed Standards"

Jorge Amodio jmamodio at gmail.com
Sat Dec 3 23:56:39 PST 2022


And keeps ongoing :-)

-Jorge

> On Dec 4, 2022, at 12:40 AM, vinton cerf via Internet-history <internet-history at elists.isoc.org> wrote:
> 
> Perhaps worth pointing out that the interplanetary Bundle Protocol Suite
> has had the benefit of work in boh IRTF and IETF as well as CCSDS. That
> work started around 1998.
> 
> v
> 
> 
>> On Sat, Dec 3, 2022 at 6:53 PM John Levine via Internet-history <
>> internet-history at elists.isoc.org> wrote:
>> 
>> According to Jack Haverty via Internet-history <jack at 3kitty.org>:
>>> Thanks, Carsten.  I agree there are exceptions.  Probably many of
>>> them.   I was just trying to point out a historical ongoing trend.
>>> 
>>> I just looked a bit at HTTP/3.  Read the Wikipedia entry which implies
>>> it's at a very early stage of deployment.
>> 
>> The wikipedia article is fairly stale.  The IETF has published standards
>> track RFCs for QUIC and HTTP/3.  Chromium, which is the base for most
>> browsers other than Safari and Firefox, has supported it since about 2020.
>> Firefox support started in May 2021, Safari in October 2021.
>> 
>> It looks like every widely used web server other than Apache now supports
>> QUIC, as does Cloudflare's web proxy so I would guess that by now there
>> is as much QUIC and HTTP/3 as other kinds of web traffic.
>> 
>> QUIC took quite a while but the IETF process worked well, with multiple
>> groups
>> implementing the drafts and providing feedback.
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