A Last Call for QUIC, a giant leap for the Internet

On October 21, 2020, draft 32 of the family of documents that describe QUIC and HTTP/3 were put into IETF Last Call, marking an important milestone for the group. QUIC is a new Internet transport protocol for secure, reliable, and multiplexed communications, while HTTP/3 builds on top of QUIC to fix performance problems such as Head-of-Line blocking. This enables web pages to load faster, especially over troublesome networks. The IETF Last Call period aims to solicit feedback from the wider IETF community for review before potentially requesting the documents be published as RFCs on the Standards Track. QUIC and HTTP/3 are extensible, allowing for new opportunities and innovation in the future.