Was't QUIC was standarized as HTTP/3 what makes it call QUIC not HTTP/3.

detaro · on April 29, 2020

No. HTTP/3 is HTTP using QUIC as the lower-layer transport. QUIC itself allows for different protocols to be build on top of it, and was standardized on its own.

elithrar · on April 29, 2020

To expand on this:

• QUIC’s original implementation bound the transport protocol & app protocol to HTTP/2 - this was led by Google and is commonly referred to as “gQUIC”. This is what Chromium implemented and could be used via the Cronet library in other contexts. • A desire to use QUIC as a stand-alone transport layer (above UDP) grew, and is now standards-tracked as “IETF QUIC”. • HTTP/3 is a evolution (rather than a revolution) of HTTP/2 that requires IETF QUIC as a transport.