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

[vinton cerf]

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.

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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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