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Fri May 28 22:13:23 BST 2021
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On Fri, May 28, 2021 at 10:16:55AM +0200, Stephane Bortzmeyer wrote:
The QUIC transport protocol, which may replace TCP for a lot of
usages, specially HTTP, is now a standard:
https://www.rfc-editor.org/info/rfc9000
QUIC is very much designed for the Web, with its special requirments,
such as parallel downloading of several resources. Gemini, being
simpler, may be less interested and may stay with TCP. Although the
lower latency of QUIC, partly due to the merge with TLS, may be
interesting since Gemini always uses TLS.
From my previous understanding of QUIC, there's no good kernel/libcsupport, so it imposes a much higher minimum client/server size on aGemini implemntation. We can assume a TLS library will be presenteverywhere, QUIC not so much. Maybe once the web browser titans havebeaten down that door we can revisit. Part of the joy of Gemini is thatyou don't need a ton of libraries to do it right, and I'd like to keepthat.