Google's QUIC protocol: moving the web from TCP to UDP

Mattias Geniar had a look at Google’s new QUIC protocol that uses UDP instead of TCP and manages to be more reliable and faster—an ideal candidate as a successor to the TCP protocol. While it’s still at an early stage, the IETF is considering to make it a standard, Google uses it for some of their services already, and several server and browser vendors have plans to implement it, too.