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jeffbee 11 hours ago

I was just reading the QUIC multipath RFC. Didn't it come out literally yesterday? I guess it's common to have the implementation foreshadowing the RFC but it's jarring to see them back to back like this.

wofo 5 hours ago | parent | next [-]

Many QUIC features get implemented while in draft stage as people iterate on the RFC's design (e.g., ACK Frequency[0] is currently on draft version 14 and I implemented support for it three years ago in quinn).

[0]: https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/draft-ietf-quic-ack-fr...

gsnedders 37 minutes ago | parent | prev | next [-]

It’s common enough for groups to not consider the spec done until there is a decent bit of implementation experience (both because actual implementers tend to find interesting bugs in specs, and because many things are hard to measure without any implementation).

kevvok 9 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

It’s pretty common for IETF drafts to be substantially complete well before they are finalized as RFCs. For example, supporting ML-KEM in TLS is still a draft, but there are already multiple large scale deployments of it since the technical aspects were nailed down a while ago

b_fiive 11 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

It's been a draft for a long while, and was only recently approved