The IETF just published QUIC as RFC 9000, supported by RFC 9001, RFC 9002, and RFC 8999.

QUIC and HTTP/3 are open standards that have been under development in the IETF for almost exactly 4 years.

TL;DR, Summer 2020: Development of QUIC and HTTP/3 within the IETF has reached a significant milestone as it nears completion.

HTTP is the application protocol that powers the Web.

The protocol that’s been called HTTP-over-QUIC for quite some time has now changed name and will officially become HTTP/3.

QUIC (Quick UDP Internet Connections) is a new encrypted-by-default Internet transport protocol, that provides a number of improvements designed to accelerate HTTP traffic as well as make it more secure, with the intended goal of eventually replacing TCP and TLS on the web.