"QUIC seems an interesting project, and I guess only the decades ahead of us will tell of it becomes a raging success."
QUIC is the transport protocol for HTTP/3, which may or may not completely replace HTTP/2 and HTTP/1.x, eventually. It certainly has performance advantages (lower latency loading websites), although some argue that users are not really aware of the difference. Here you can monitor the march or QUIC and HTTP/3 on websites worldwide: https://w3techs.com/technologies/details/ce-http3 When I started to check this a couple of years ago, it was 5-6%, now is 26% and growing slowly but steadily. IMHO, one of the coolest things of QUIC is the connection migration feature: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1DlMI_3MOxnWarvEVfzKxFqmD7c-u1cYG/view?pli=1 Regards, David > Date: Sat, 23 Sep 2023 14:22:58 +1000 > From: Noel Butler <noel.but...@ausics.net> > To: Vint Cerf <v...@google.com> > Cc: starlink@lists.bufferbloat.net > Subject: Re: [Starlink] APNIC56 last week > Message-ID: <83e9b47895d019d282e21bbdd4f4c...@ausics.net> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8"; Format="flowed" > > Hi Vint, > > On 23/09/2023 11:47, Vint Cerf wrote: > >> Noel, IPv4 is only managing to work because it is NATted - going to >> IPv6 let's us get back to point-to-point in either direction including >> rendezvous. >> The present IPv4 situation is NOT good - people are paying $35-50 per >> IPv4 address to acquire or even to lease them. For all practical >> purposes, IPv4 has run out. >> >> vint > > Oh I agree it's not a good situation, but my point was it's still most > dominant 30 years after they claimed we had about 5 years, it's like the > little boy who cried wolf, if they held off the hysterics until it was > proved imminent, I've no doubt the update would be greater and taken > more seriously (I've used IPv6 for over 10 years myself), but the global > low uptake is what causes ISP's and Telco's to use CGNAT, its free and > plentiful, so it still wont be laid to rest for a while yet. > > IPv6 is only 4% of traffic that hits my Mail Servers, it's less than 1% > on my Web servers. > > Just like TCP, it wont be going anywhere, not quietly, and if it were > to, likely be long after I'm gone, QUIC seems an interesting project, > and I guess only the decades ahead of us will tell of it becomes a > raging success. > > Cheers _______________________________________________ Starlink mailing list Starlink@lists.bufferbloat.net https://lists.bufferbloat.net/listinfo/starlink
