HTTP-over-QUIC to be renamed HTTP/3
Summary
QUIC stands for "Quick UDP Internet Connections" and is, itself, Googles attempt at rewriting the TCP protocol as an improved technology that combines HTTP/2, TCP, UDP, and TLS (for encryption), among many other things.Google wants QUIC to slowly replace both TCP and UDP as the new protocol of choice for moving binary data across the Internet, and for good reasons, as test have proven that QUIC is both faster and more secure because of its encrypted-by-default implementation (current HTTP-over-QUIC protocol draft uses the newly released TLS 1.3 protocol).Since then, HTTP-over-QUIC support was added inside Chrome 29 and Opera 16, but also in LiteSpeed web servers.While initially, only Googles servers supported HTTP-over-QUIC connections, this year, Facebook also started adopting the technology.In the subsequent discussions that followed and stretched over several days, Nottinghams proposal was accepted by fellow IETF members, who gave their official seal of approval that HTTP-over-QUIC become HTTP/3, the next major iteration of the HTTP protocol, the technology that underpins todays World Wide Web.