This repository is used for a draft on multipath terminology, as part of discussion on QUIC multipath. The draft is draft-dawkins-quic-what-to-do-with-multipath.

From the Abstract:

The IETF QUIC working group has been chartered to produce extensions that would "enable ... multipath capabilities" since the working group was formed in 2016, but because multipath was an extension, work on multipath, and the other extensions named in the charter, waited while work proceeded on the core QUIC protocol specifications.

After the QUIC working group chairs requested publication for the core QUIC protocol specifications, they scheduled a virtual interim meeting to understand the use cases that various groups inside and outside the IETF were envisioning for multipath with QUIC.

As part of that discussion, it became obvious that people had a variety of ideas about how multiple paths would be used, because they weren't looking at the same use cases.

This document is intended to capture that variety of ideas, to inform further discussion in the working group.

Issues and pull requests are welcomed here. Substantative discussion should happen on the QUIC working group mailing list, at [email protected].