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In case anyone else wasn't familiar with QUIC: it appears to be a Google-developed protocol that's similar to TCP+TLS+HTTP/2, but lower latency and with several other advantages, implemented on top of UDP. https://www.chromium.org/quic

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The original version of QUIC was contributed to the IETF by Google, but at this point many people from outside of Google have contributed. Saying it is Google-developed is inaccurate at best if you're talking about recent drafts of the IETF spec.

Sure, but by far the biggest contributor to the project is Google and it should take some credit for it.

It will also become http/3 https://daniel.haxx.se/blog/2018/11/11/http-3/

Discussion about this is here:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18427795

It's worth emphasizing that QUIC is more general than a new transport for HTTP; it has wide ranging applications, due to being far more versatile than TCP.

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