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QUIC is an experimental protocol aimed at reducing web latency over
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that of TCP. On the surface, QUIC is very similar to TCP+TLS+SPDY
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implemented on UDP. Because TCP is implement in operating system
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kernels, and middlebox firmware, making significant changes to TCP is
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next to impossible. However, since QUIC is built on top of UDP, it
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suffers from no such limitations.
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Key features of QUIC over existing TCP+TLS+SPDY include
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+ Dramatically reduced connection establishment time
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+ Improved congestion control
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+ Multiplexing without head of line blocking
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+ Forward error correction
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+ Connection migration
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