Tech: Another technological jump - TCP to Quic

Subject: Tech: Another technological jump - TCP to Quic
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 31 May 21 - 03:49 PM

Quic gives the internet's data transmission foundation a needed speedup

It's been eight years since Google first announced the technology to replace the internet's seminal TCP standard.

One of the internet's foundations just got an upgrade. Quic, a protocol for transmitting data between computers, improves speed and security on the internet and can replace Transmission Control Protocol, or TCP, a standard that dates back to Ye Olde Internet of 1974.

Earlier this week, the Internet Engineering Task Force, which sets many standards for the global network, published Quic as a standard. Web browsers and online services have been testing the technology for years, but the IETF's imprimatur is a sign the standard is mature enough to embrace fully.

It's extremely hard to improve the internet at the fundamental level of data transmission. Countless devices, programs and services are built to use the earlier infrastructure, which has lasted decades. Quic has been in public development for nearly eight years since Google first announced Quic in 2013 as an experimental addition to its Chrome browser.

But upgrades to the internet's foundations are crucial to keep the world-spanning communication and commerce backbone humming. That's why engineers spend so much effort on titanic transitions like Quic, HTTPS for secure website communications, post-quantum cryptography to protect data from future quantum computers, and IPv6 for accommodating vastly more devices on the internet.

"The internet transport ecosystem has been ossified for decades now," Jana Iyengar, an engineer who helped lead Quic standardization at internet infrastructure company Fastly, said in a blog post. "Quic is poised to lead the charge on the next generation of internet innovations."

There are diagrams and the rest of the article at the link.

Subject: RE: Tech: Another technological jump - TCP to Quic
From: GUEST,oh yeah.
Date: 31 May 21 - 08:22 PM

Like I'm going to trust Gurgle with technology. I plan on using my five older Macs as long as I can use a computer. They are fast enough for me!

But *I* am a minor user. Nobody would listen to me.