QUIC: A UDP-Based Multiplexed and Secure Transport
draft-ietf-quic-transport-14
QUIC J. Iyengar, Ed.
Internet-Draft Fastly
Intended status: Standards Track M. Thomson, Ed.
Expires: February 16, 2019 Mozilla
August 15, 2018
QUIC: A UDP-Based Multiplexed and Secure Transport
draft-ietf-quic-transport-14
Abstract
This document defines the core of the QUIC transport protocol. This
document describes connection establishment, packet format,
multiplexing and reliability. Accompanying documents describe the
cryptographic handshake and loss detection.
Note to Readers
Discussion of this draft takes place on the QUIC working group
mailing list (quic@ietf.org), which is archived at
<https://mailarchive.ietf.org/arch/search/?email_list=quic>.
Working Group information can be found at <https://github.com/
quicwg>; source code and issues list for this draft can be found at
<https://github.com/quicwg/base-drafts/labels/-transport>.
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Table of Contents
1. Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5
2. Conventions and Definitions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6
2.1. Notational Conventions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7
3. Versions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7
4. Packet Types and Formats . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8
4.1. Long Header . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8
4.2. Short Header . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11
4.3. Version Negotiation Packet . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12
4.4. Retry Packet . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14
4.5. Cryptographic Handshake Packets . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16
4.6. Initial Packet . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16
4.6.1. Connection IDs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18
4.6.2. Tokens . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19
4.6.3. Starting Packet Numbers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20
4.6.4. 0-RTT Packet Numbers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20
4.6.5. Minimum Packet Size . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20
4.7. Handshake Packet . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21
4.8. Protected Packets . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21
4.9. Coalescing Packets . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22
4.10. Connection ID Encoding . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23
4.11. Packet Numbers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24
5. Frames and Frame Types . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26
5.1. Extension Frames . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29
6. Life of a Connection . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29
6.1. Connection ID . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30
6.2. Matching Packets to Connections . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31
6.2.1. Client Packet Handling . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31
6.2.2. Server Packet Handling . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32
6.3. Version Negotiation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32
6.3.1. Sending Version Negotiation Packets . . . . . . . . . 33
6.3.2. Handling Version Negotiation Packets . . . . . . . . 33
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