HTTP/3 is the upcoming third major version of the Hypertext Transfer Protocol used to exchange binary information on the World Wide Web.[1] HTTP/3 is based on previous RFC draft “Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP) over QUIC”.[citation needed] QUIC is an experimental transport layer network protocol initially developed by Google.

On 28 October 2018 in a mailing list discussion, Mark Nottingham, Chair of the IETF HTTP and QUIC Working Groups, made the official request to rename HTTP-over-QUIC as HTTP/3 to “clearly identify it as another binding of HTTP semantics to the wire protocol … so people understand its separation from QUIC” and pass its development from the QUIC Working Group to the HTTP Working Group after finalizing and publishing the draft.[2] In the subsequent discussions that followed and stretched over several days, Nottingham’s proposal was accepted by fellow IETF members, who in November 2018 gave their official seal of approval that HTTP-over-QUIC become HTTP/3.[3]

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References

  1. ^ Bishop, Mike (December 2018). Hypertext Transfer Protocol Version 3 (HTTP/3). IETF. I-D draft-ietf-quic-http-17. https://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-ietf-quic-http-17. 
  2. ^ Nottingham, Mark (28 October 2018). “Identifying our deliverables”. IETF Mail Archive.
  3. ^ Cimpanu, Catalin (12 November 2018). “HTTP-over-QUIC to be renamed HTTP/3 | ZDNet”. ZDNet. Retrieved 12 November 2018.