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by wikibob 2556 days ago
This is a Big Deal because it enables support for QUIC, which is now being standardized as HTTP/3.

To work around the TCP head of line blocking problem (among others) QUIC aises UDP.

QUIC does some incredible patching over legacy decisions in the TCP and IP stack to make things faster, more reliable especially on mobile networks, and more secure.

Here’s a great summary from Fastly on what QUIC means for the Internet: https://www.fastly.com/blog/why-fastly-loves-quic-http3