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Comment by Sparkyte

They are already expected standards so when you create optimizations you're building on functions that need to be supported additionally on top of them. This leads to incompatibility and sometimes often worse performance as what is being experienced here with QUIC.

You can read more about such things from, The Evolution of the Internet Congestion Control. https://groups.csail.mit.edu/ana/Publications/The_Evolution_...

A good solution is to create a newer protocol when the limits of an existing protcol are exceeded. No one thought of needing HTTPS long ago and now we have 443 for HTTP security. If we need something to be faster and it has already achieved an arbitrary limit for the sake of backward compatibility it would be better to introduce a new protocol.

I dislike the idea that we're turning into another Reddit where we are pointing fingers at people for updoots. If you dislike my opinion please present one equal to where that can be challenged.

parent Sparkyte 2 years ago

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