[Starlink] Starlink Digest, Vol 30, Issue 38

[David Fernández]

"QUIC seems an interesting project, and I guess only the decades ahead
of us will tell of it becomes a raging success."

QUIC is the transport protocol for HTTP/3, which may or may not
completely replace HTTP/2 and HTTP/1.x, eventually. It certainly has
performance advantages (lower latency loading websites), although some
argue that users are not really aware of the difference.

Here you can monitor the march or QUIC and HTTP/3 on websites worldwide:
https://w3techs.com/technologies/details/ce-http3
When I started to check this a couple of years ago, it was 5-6%, now
is 26% and growing slowly but steadily.

IMHO, one of the coolest things of QUIC is the connection migration feature:
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1DlMI_3MOxnWarvEVfzKxFqmD7c-u1cYG/view?pli=1

Regards,

David

> Date: Sat, 23 Sep 2023 14:22:58 +1000
> From: Noel Butler <noel.butler at ausics.net>
> To: Vint Cerf <vint at google.com>
> Cc: starlink at lists.bufferbloat.net
> Subject: Re: [Starlink] APNIC56 last week
> Message-ID: <83e9b47895d019d282e21bbdd4f4cc57 at ausics.net>
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>
> Hi Vint,
>
> On 23/09/2023 11:47, Vint Cerf wrote:
>
>> Noel, IPv4 is only managing to work because it is NATted - going to
>> IPv6 let's us get back to point-to-point in either direction including
>> rendezvous.
>> The present IPv4 situation is NOT good - people are paying $35-50 per
>> IPv4 address to acquire or even to lease them. For all practical
>> purposes, IPv4 has run out.
>>
>> vint
>
> Oh I agree it's not a good situation, but my point was it's still most
> dominant 30 years after they claimed we had about 5 years, it's like the
> little boy who cried wolf, if they held off the hysterics until it was
> proved imminent, I've no doubt the update would be greater and taken
> more seriously (I've used IPv6 for over 10 years myself), but the global
> low uptake is what causes ISP's and Telco's to use CGNAT, its free and
> plentiful, so it still wont be laid to rest for a while yet.
>
> IPv6 is only 4% of traffic that hits my Mail Servers, it's less than 1%
> on my Web servers.
>
> Just like TCP, it wont be going anywhere, not quietly, and if it were
> to, likely be long after I'm gone, QUIC seems an interesting project,
> and I guess only the decades ahead of us will tell of it becomes a
> raging success.
>
> Cheers