The QUIC protocol combines features that were initially found inside the TCP, TLS and HTTP/2 protocols. The IETF is currently finalising a complete specification of this protocol. More than a dozen of independent implementations have been developed in parallel with these standardisation activities. We propose and implement a QUIC test suite that interacts with public QUIC servers to verify their conformance with key features of the IETF specification. Our measurements, gathered over a semester, provide a unique viewpoint on the evolution of a protocol and of its implementations. They highlight the arrival of new features and some regressions among the different implementations.
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@article{arxiv.1810.09134,
title = {Observing the Evolution of QUIC Implementations},
author = {Maxime Piraux and Quentin De Coninck and Olivier Bonaventure},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1810.09134},
year = {2019}
}