Can I set the UDP checksum to zero when running QUIC?

"Shihang(Vincent)" <shihang9@huawei.com> Tue, 12 March 2024 11:04 UTC

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From: "Shihang(Vincent)" <shihang9@huawei.com>
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Subject: Can I set the UDP checksum to zero when running QUIC?
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Hi QUIC wg,
Since QUIC has strong encryption and integrity protection provided by TLS 1.3. I wonder if the UDP checksum can be disabled(using UDP Zero Checksum Mode https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc6936 )to save the computation just like in VXLAN(RFC7348<https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc7348#autoid-12>).

Thanks,
Hang