Hi, Lars,

On Thu, Oct 1, 2020 at 6:20 AM Lars Eggert <[email protected]> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> thanks for the feedback! Below is an updated draft that attempts to
> incorporate it.
>
> Please feel free to send further comments.
>
> Thanks,
> Lars, Lucas and Mark
>
> --
>
> Thank you for the update on your progress and your questions. Please find
> our
> responses below.
>
> On Qn-1: The future of multipath support for QUIC is currently under active
> discussion in the IETF QUIC working group. While it was part of the
> original
> charter due to being under active investigation for the pre-IETF "Google
> QUIC"
> protocol, several participants have argued during the last year that QUIC's
> connection migration support is sufficient for the majority of our use
> cases,
> and that full-blown support for multipath QUIC should consequently be
> abandoned
> as a WG deliverable. Other WG participants remain of the opinion that
> multipath
> support for QUIC is very important. Due to this active ongoing discussion,
> we do
> not have an estimate at this time whether WG drafts for multipath QUIC
> will be
> available in 1Q2021.
>

This is much improved.

Perhaps it is also worth pointing out that (just like 3GPP) the IETF and
QUIC working group are contribution-driven, so any timeline estimates
depend on people contributing to the work, and the IETF is open to
participation from anyone who can contribute to the work.


> On Qn-2: The QUIC WG is chartered to provide an encrypted transport
> protocol.
> An option to disable encryption will hence not be standardized.
>

That's the right answer to the question the QUIC working group was asked. I
agree that a different question might have gotten a different answer, but
you're not a mind reader ...

Best,

Spencer


> Kind regards,
> Mark Nottingham, Lucas Pardue and Lars Eggert, QUIC Working Group chairs
>
>

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