Re: Proposal Towards Universal HTTP/3, with a polyfill of QUIC for TCP (Fwd: New Version Notification for draft-kazuho-httpbis-http3-on-streams-00.txt)

• From: Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@phk.freebsd.dk>
• Date: Fri, 16 Feb 2024 11:01:14 +0000
• To: Kazuho Oku <kazuhooku@gmail.com>
• cc: IETF QUIC WG <quic@ietf.org>, HTTP Working Group <ietf-http-wg@w3.org>, Lucas Pardue <lucas@lucaspardue.com>
• Message-Id: <202402161101.41GB1Etp020238@critter.freebsd.dk>

Kazuho Oku writes:

> We, Lucas and I, have submitted two drafts aimed at broadening the reach of
> HTTP/3 - yes, making it available over TCP as well. We are eager to hear
> your thoughts on these:

So now we will have:

 websocket
 http/3
 quic
 tls
 tcp
 ip
 ethernet
 …and who knows how many physical layers below that.

I remember when IETF people ridiculed the OSI protocols for their having seven layers of protocol...

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