QUIC (by Google) set to replace TCP

Seems that TCP is being replace with QUIC:

And will be used by the new HTTP3 standard:

So TCP is one less thing to worry about :wink:

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I’m sure Google would love to see TCP replaced with their own protocol, but why should we let them dictate the architecture of the internet?

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Mostly because everybody else is doing absolutely nothing about it. :smiley:

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Cloudflare and Firefox as joined Google on that effort, check the second article:

Since then, we’ve been working with industry peers through the Internet Engineering Task Force, including Google Chrome and Mozilla Firefox, to iterate on the HTTP/3 and QUIC standards documents. In parallel with the standards maturing, we’ve also worked on improving support on our network.

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