On 2021-05-31 19:09, Karl Auer wrote (quoting a CNET article): >> Quic gives the internet's data transmission foundation a needed speedup > > That whole article is the most egregious misuse of the present tense I've > seen in a long time.
Karl, it's marketing, what else can we expect? Treat a speculative "standard" as a done deal and everyone will come on board. I submit it's an even more egregious mis-statement of technical reality. For example: > But upgrades to the internet's foundations are crucial to keep the > world-spanning communication and commerce backbone humming. That's why > engineers spend so much effort on titanic transitions like Quic, HTTPS for > secure website communications, post-quantum cryptography to protect data from > future quantum computers, and IPv6 for accommodating vastly more devices on > the internet. "That's why engineers spend so much effort on titanic transitions like [...] post-quantum cryptography to protect data from future quantum computers, and IPv6 for accommodating vastly more devices on the internet." Did I miss something? Has proven "quantum computing" been demonstrated on any useful scale at all? But I can see a need for "post-quantum cryptography" to protect our loT light-bulbs from evil actors using "future quantum computers". I must be getting cynical post-retirement. David Lochrin _______________________________________________ Link mailing list [email protected] https://mailman.anu.edu.au/mailman/listinfo/link
