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QUIC lives on top of UDP. If we reinvent TCP on top of UDP we may as well just throw in the towel on IPv6 and embrace IPv4 + NAT. Why bother trying to fix layer
by nly 13y ago
QUIC lives on top of UDP. If we reinvent TCP on top of UDP we may as well just throw in the towel on IPv6 and embrace IPv4 + NAT. Why bother trying to fix layer 2 when we're content to fuck shit up on the higher layers for the sake of back compat? IPv6 is our chance to bring back end-to-end networking with stateless routers.
- wmf 13y agoQUIC is the prototype; if you build an experiment that doesn't work in the short term then you never learn from it and you can't fix the flaws you didn't learn about. Once it's finished maybe it could become a real protocol instead of layered on UDP.