kixelated

Not yet but one day: https://github.com/WebKit/standards-positions/issues/18#issu...

Hey HN, I spent some of my downtime between jobs making a proof-of-concept for a new live media protocol in development at IETF: Media over QUIC. Everything is in an extremely early stage so don't expect it to work, but now is a great time to get involved if you're interested in the live media ecosystem.

Oh yeah, QUIC is an improvement in terms of latency and even throughput over TCP/TLS. The claim that "QUIC is horribly inefficient" centers around CPU utilization and the cost of delivering each byte. That's where hardware offload shines but it doesn't exist for QUIC yet.

You can use QUIC without the HTTP/3 layer on top. It's a general purpose replacement for TCP+TLS.

You're right that HTTP/3 requires Alt-Svc at the moment. QUIC itself doesn't require a pre-established connection (1-RTT), which is notable for non-HTTP/3 protocols and WebTransport.

Kernels and hardware have been optimized for TCP. QUIC will catch up eventually.