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For anyone interested, the original design doc for QUIC from 2013 [0]. Really good writeup, both in terms of engineering spec / architectural design. I recommend reading through if you have the time.

[0]: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1RNHkx_VvKWyWg6Lr8SZ-saqs...

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Looks great, thanks for sharing!

How does it compare to the February 2020 standard draft from IETF? [1] I was following the development of the Websocket protocol pretty closely when it happened and had to update my implementation[2] multiple times as the design kept changing. Did this also happen here, or was QUIC pretty much done and standardized straight from the Google design?

[1] https://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-ietf-quic-transport-27

[2] https://github.com/nicolasff/webdis#websockets

There's a lot of significant differences from the original Google QUIC design and what we currently have in the IETF drafts. They are very much wire-incompatible. That's why it took several years for the working group to get to a point where they were near-completion.

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