QUIC traffic throttled on AT&T residential

Fri Feb 21 03:54:40 UTC 2020

On Thu, Feb 20, 2020 at 8:10 AM Ca By <cb.list6 at gmail.com> wrote:

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> Not indiscriminate.
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> As Google was informed by network operators all along since 2014, ipv4 UDP
> is a major uptime threat via DDoS to access networks.
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> Google choose not to be sensitive to that, they were told where the
> landmines were, they choose to go on anyhow.
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It isn’t like they had a choice. You can’t build a transport protocol like
QUIC on top of TCP (I know, I built one of its ancestors, which also uses
UDP underneath). And if you think getting UDP through existing networks is
hard, try using a novel IP protocol number.

Matthew Kaufman

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