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by hinkley 1774 days ago
Some of the HTTP/2 and HTTP3 design choices are seen as trying to solve this problem another way.

If a round trip to New York is too long, then twenty of them is way worse. So I can either do 20 round trips to Nevada, which does <20 round trips to Chicago, which does <<20 round trips to New York. Or, I can do some more cleverness with transport and session bootstrapping and end up with 14 round trips to New York.