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by Matthias247 2762 days ago
QUIC is somewhat comparable to SCTP. But in both situations you wouldn't be using HTTP/2 on top of it. One of the main points of HTTP/2 is multiplexing several streams over a single transport stream. This isn't needed anymore with QUIC or SCTP, since they already perform stream multiplexing. The only thing which is left is transferring HTTP semantics over those QUIC or SCTP streams. The most simple way to do that would be doing HTTP/1.1 over them. However as far as I know (haven't read the latest state) QUIC uses a more sophisticated mechanism, which also provides header compression and caching across multiple streams, similar to HTTP/2. So it adopted some parts of HTTP/2, but isn't really HTTP/2 over QUIC/SCTP.