QUIC: A UDP-Based Multiplexed and Secure Transport
draft-ietf-quic-transport-19
QUIC J. Iyengar, Ed.
Internet-Draft Fastly
Intended status: Standards Track M. Thomson, Ed.
Expires: September 12, 2019 Mozilla
March 11, 2019
QUIC: A UDP-Based Multiplexed and Secure Transport
draft-ietf-quic-transport-19
Abstract
This document defines the core of the QUIC transport protocol.
Accompanying documents describe QUIC's loss detection and congestion
control and the use of TLS for key negotiation.
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
1.1. Document Structure . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6
1.2. Terms and Definitions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7
1.3. Notational Conventions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8
2. Streams . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8
2.1. Stream Types and Identifiers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9
2.2. Sending and Receiving Data . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10
2.3. Stream Prioritization . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10
3. Stream States . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11
3.1. Sending Stream States . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11
3.2. Receiving Stream States . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13
3.3. Permitted Frame Types . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16
3.4. Bidirectional Stream States . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16
3.5. Solicited State Transitions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18
4. Flow Control . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19
4.1. Data Flow Control . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19
4.2. Flow Credit Increments . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20
4.3. Handling Stream Cancellation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21
4.4. Stream Final Size . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22
4.5. Controlling Concurrency . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22
5. Connections . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23
5.1. Connection ID . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23
5.1.1. Issuing Connection IDs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24
5.1.2. Consuming and Retiring Connection IDs . . . . . . . . 25
5.2. Matching Packets to Connections . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26
5.2.1. Client Packet Handling . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26
5.2.2. Server Packet Handling . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27
5.3. Life of a QUIC Connection . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27
6. Version Negotiation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28
6.1. Sending Version Negotiation Packets . . . . . . . . . . . 28
6.2. Handling Version Negotiation Packets . . . . . . . . . . 28
6.2.1. Version Negotiation Between Draft Versions . . . . . 29
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