“Starting as an experiment at Google, QUIC was developed through a collaborative and iterative standardization process at the IETF after almost five years, 26 face-to-face meetings, 1,749 issues, and many thousands of emails.”
The internet’s transport layer has been frozen for decades. QUIC gets around that by encrypting the parts nobody should have been touching anyway. It took five years and 1,749 issues to standardize something that began as one company’s experiment. The CDN writing the victory post sells QUIC to its customers.