[LINK] Internet Upgrade

[David]

On 2021-05-31 19:09, Karl Auer wrote (quoting a CNET article):

>> Quic gives the internet's data transmission foundation a needed speedup
>  
> That whole article is the most egregious misuse of the present tense I've seen in a long time.

Karl, it's marketing, what else can we expect?  Treat a speculative "standard" as a done deal and everyone will come on board.  I submit it's an even more egregious mis-statement of technical reality.  For example:

> But upgrades to the internet's foundations are crucial to keep the world-spanning communication and commerce backbone humming. That's why engineers spend so much effort on titanic transitions like Quic, HTTPS for secure website communications, post-quantum cryptography to protect data from future quantum computers, and IPv6 for accommodating vastly more devices on the internet.

"That's why engineers spend so much effort on titanic transitions like [...] post-quantum cryptography to protect data from future quantum computers, and IPv6 for accommodating vastly more devices on the internet."  Did I miss something?  Has proven "quantum computing" been demonstrated on any useful scale at all?

But I can see a need for "post-quantum cryptography" to protect our loT light-bulbs from evil actors using "future quantum computers".

I must be getting cynical post-retirement.

David Lochrin