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Hey Ilya: Is it possibly in the works to merge QUIC's UDP and magical error correction into whatever SPDY doesn't have that QUIC could complement it with, maybe eventually abandoning QUIC and just going full-force on a further-supercharged SPDY?

Thanks for lowering my bounce by the way..

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Short answer, yes. Longer answer, there are two ways QUIC can succeed:

a) QUIC makes headway on its own, delivers significant perf win, moves to IETF and becomes a standalone protocol in the long run. b) TCP and TLS leverage techniques & lessons learned from QUIC.

Either way, the users will win. It's too early to tell which of these paths it'll take.. But I do know that both TLS and TCP groups are paying close attention to QUIC and there are already discussions on how to improve performance based on some of the ideas being prototyped in QUIC.

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