[vavrusa]

HTTPS gives you clear upgrade path to QUIC and handshake costs of TLS 1.2-3 as well.

This is the very goal of this study - to determine how feasible is it in the real world and what's the performance impact.

[the8472]

You still don't need HTTP(S) for that. You could still use dTLS and later experiment with raw QUIC, sans HTTP.