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A Last Call for QUIC, a giant leap for the Internet

Oct 22, 2020Lucas Pardue
A Last Call for QUIC, a giant leap for the Internet
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This post marks a significant milestone in the development and standardization of QUIC and HTTP/3, highlighting their 'IETF Last Call' status. It details Cloudflare's active involvement in this process, from co-chairing the working group to deploying HTTP/3 on its edge. The post emphasizes the performance benefits of QUIC/HTTP/3, particularly in overcoming head-of-line blocking, and discusses future opportunities for innovation on top of QUIC, such as multipath, new congestion control approaches, and its application in other use cases like DNS and WebTransport. It also provides extensive resources for learning more about these protocols.

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