Interesting Links for 12-11-2018

[andrewducker]

George RR Martin: ‘When I began GoT I thought it might be a short story’ (some spoilers for early books)

(tags: gameofthrones GeorgeRRMartin )

Brexit timetable thrown into turmoil as Theresa May is forced to cancel planned cabinet meeting to approve her deal

(tags: UK europe doom )

HTTP/3 is the new name for QUIC

(tags: web http thefuture )

25 Years Ago Today, the First Major Web Browser Was Released

(tags: Web history )

Fifty awful effects of Brexit so far

(tags: UK europe doom )

Comments

QUIC

[fanf]

HTTP/3 is the new name for the mapping layer that adapts HTTP to QUIC. They can’t just use HTTP/2 directly because there are features of HTTP/2 that assume a TCP substrate, e.g the order-sensitive stateful header compression doesn’t work with QUIC’s looser multiplex ordering.

gQUIC was HTTP-specific, but iQUIC is being developed as a generic transport protocol. That part will probably continue to be called QUIC.