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Talking with a friend, we believe QUIC itself could be reconceptualized into multiple layers without changing the wire format: 1. Connection management 1.1. In
by Ericson2314 8y ago
Talking with a friend, we believe QUIC itself could be reconceptualized into multiple layers without changing the wire format:
1. Connection management
1.1. Initial handshake allows arbitrary layer above initial handshake in same packet as body
1.2. Subsequent packets have connection identifier.
2. Encryption. The SSL bits.
3. Multiplexing and Congestion control.
So in essence the trick of QUIC is not collapsing layers, but splitting TCP into connection management and congestion control and moving SSL in the middle.
So why wasn't this proposed? I hope not because people are too "practical" to care about layering and abstraction anymore!