Thanks Lars, the second draft looks good to me. David
On Thu, Oct 1, 2020 at 7:36 AM Spencer Dawkins at IETF < [email protected]> wrote: > 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 >> >>
