Re: Should the specifications hard-refer to UDP?

Lars Eggert <lars@eggert.org> Wed, 19 August 2020 07:11 UTC

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Subject: Re: Should the specifications hard-refer to UDP?
Date: Wed, 19 Aug 2020 10:11:22 +0300
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On 2020-8-18, at 19:55, Christian Huitema <huitema@huitema.net> wrote:
> 
> Please leave the spec as Quic over UDP, because that's what we have
> developed and tested.
> 
> If people want to run Quic over IPv6, ATM, or MPLS, or whatever else,
> they should first run an experiment, learn what works and what does not,
> and publish drafts describing problems and solutions. That is, running
> code instead of some theoretical exercise.

+1

Lars