Re: Google's QUIC

[shawn wilson <ag4ve.us () gmail com>]

On Jun 29, 2013 12:23 AM, "Christopher Morrow" <morrowc.lists () gmail com>
wrote:
> On Fri, Jun 28, 2013 at 10:12 PM, Octavio Alvarez
> <alvarezp () alvarezp ods org> wrote:
> > On Fri, 28 Jun 2013 17:20:21 -0700, Christopher Morrow
> > <morrowc.lists () gmail com> wrote:
> >
> > > "Runs in top of UDP"... "Is not UDP"...
> > >
> > > If it has protocol set to 17 it is UDP.
> >
> >
> > So QUIC is an algorithm instead of a protocol?
>
> it's as much a protocol as http is.. I suppose my point is that it's
> some protocol which uses udp as the transport.
>
> Because of this I don't see any (really) kernel/stack changes
> required, right? it's just something the application needs to work out
> with it's peer(s). No different from http vs smtp...

SCTP was layer 4, if QUIC is the same, than it will too. If QUIC is layer 5
up, it won't. That might be the difference (I haven't looked into QUIC).

> -chris