tags: #publish links: [[Networking]], [[HTTP and related protocols]] created: 2021-09-23 Thu --- # QUIC https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/QUIC "Quick" A general transport-layer protocol, out of Google, published 2013. Chrome uses this to communicate to Google's webservers. Other browsers have some support, currently (2020-2021) still disabled by default for the most part. Aims to improve connection-oriented webapps using multiplexed UDP connections. This works together with [[HTTP2]] which has multiplexed connections. It is formally part of the [[HTTP3]] draft standard, instead of TCP.