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QUIC

QUIC (/kwɪk/) is a general-purpose transport layer network protocol initially designed by Jim Roskind at Google. It was first implemented and deployed in 2012 and was publicly announced in 2013 as experimentation broadened. It was also described at an IETF meeting. QUIC is supported by major web browsers, including Chrome, Edge, Firefox, and Safari. In…

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Based on
IP, normally layered with UDP
Developers
IETF, Google
Introduction
October 12, 2012; 13 years ago (2012-10-12)
OSI layer
Transport layer
Purpose
General purpose

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Bibliography

  • IETF Internet Engineering Task Force
  • Doi Doi (identifier)
  • RFC Request for Comments
  • LWN.net

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QUIC

Nodes100
Edges99
Triples243
Avg. degree1.98
Density0.02
Components1

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QUIC

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related to Bibliography · 72
QUIC → Analysis Conference, April, Are TCP, Barre, Be, Benjamin, Benoit, Bonaventure, Bottom-Up Investigation, Brian, Christoph, Colin, Considerations, Corbet, December, Deployable Multipath TCP, Designing, Detal, Donnet, Duchene
related to External links · 43
QUIC → Apple, Chromium Blog, Congestion ControlChromium, Connecting, Daniel Stenberg, David Schinazi, Design Approaches, Design Document, EPIQ, Experimental Investigation, Experimenting, Facebook's IETF QUIC, GitHubRFC, Google, Google Developers, HTTP, HTTP/3, IETF Internet-Draft, IETF-88 TSV Area Presentation, Innovating Transport
related to Server support · 32
QUIC → Akamai Technologies, Although, April, As, Caddy, Chromium, Citrix, Citrix ADC, Cloudflare, Docker, Facebook, Finally, Go, Google, HTTP, HTTP-over-QUIC, HTTP/3, In, July, LiteSpeed
see also · 27
QUIC → CoAP, Congestion Control Protocol, Constrained Application Protocol, Data Expedition, Datagram Transport Layer Security, DCCP, DTLS, Fast, Inc, Low Extra Delay Background, Micro Transport Protocol, MTP/IP, Multipurpose Transaction Protocol, Real-Time Media Flow Protocol, Reliable User Datagram Protocol, REST, RFC, RTMFP, RUDP, SCTP UDP Encapsulation
related to Google QUIC (gQUIC) · 13
QUIC → Chrome, Chromium, Google, Google's QUIC, However, HTTP, HTTPS, IETF, IETF QUIC, In, Internet, The, TLS
has application · 11
QUIC → Another, DNS-over-QUIC, DNS-over-TLS, HTTP, HTTP/3, Microsoft, SMB, SMB VPN, TCP, The IETF, XMPP
related to Characteristics · 10
QUIC → As, HTTP, In, It, Other, TCP, The, This, TLS, When
related to Browser support · 9
QUIC → August, Chrome, Chromium, Firefox, Google Chrome, It, May, Support, The QUIC
related to Adoption · 6
QUIC → Adoption, As, CDNs, HTTP/3, Hypertext Transfer Protocol, W3Techs
related to Extensions · 6
QUIC → IETF QUIC Working Group, Internet-Draft, It, May, RFC, Wi-Fi

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http protocol ietf tcp connection data google transport udp support connections rfc internet applications network multiplexed server traffic use packet

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QUICBased onIP, normally layered with UDP1.00infobox
QUICDevelopersIETF, Google1.00infobox
QUICIntroductionOctober 12, 2012; 13 years ago (2012-10-12)1.00infobox
QUICOSI layerTransport layer1.00infobox
QUICPurposeGeneral purpose1.00infobox
QUICRFCs.mw-parser-output cite.citation{font-style:inherit;word-wrap:break-word}.mw-parser-output .citation q{quotes:"\"""\"""'""'"}.mw-parser-output .citation:target{background-color:r…1.00infobox
QUICWebsitequicwg.org1.00infobox
QUICis aapplication of QUIC to name resolution0.90text
TLS 1.0 are not allowed in a QUIC stack.Google QUICinstance ofEarlier insecure protocols0.80text
QUIChas applicationHTTP0.60section
QUIChas applicationHTTP/30.60section
QUIChas applicationDNS-over-QUIC0.60section

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