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>d) having one protocol with bindings to all applicable ULPs will help us get over the kernel support issues.

Isn't the purpose of QUIC to hide all of this from the kernel, at the cost of statically binding the library to the app (as Go might)?

>Cross-site linking is so incredibly useful that it can't be done without. And now you need a fancy user-agent (browsers), so the web folks built one (browsers).

Just set the MIME to text/plain?



> Isn't the purpose of QUIC to hide all of this from the kernel, [...]

Yes, but the moment you want to use a new ULP (which is what TFA seems to be angling for) you'll basically need kernel support, except for kernel-mode / baremetal apps that aren't really relevant to this discussion.




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