HTTP-over-QUIC to be renamed HTTP/3 IETF agrees to base the next major iteration of HTTP on Google's QUIC protocol Written by Catalin Cimpanu, Contributor Nov. 12, 2018 at 6:48 a.m. PT ...

HTTP/3 and QUIC are primed to modernize the internet in a number of ways: faster response times, greater accessibility worldwide, and setting the standard for built-in encryption, just to name a few.

Google today took the wraps off a new experimental protocol called Quick UDP Internet Connections (QUIC) and added it to Chrome Canary, the latest version of its browser.