MoQ: Refactoring the Internet's real-time media stack
2025-08-22
Media over QUIC (MoQ) is a new IETF standard that resolves this conflict, creating a single foundation for sub-second, interactive streaming at a global scale. ...
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Examining HTTP/3 usage one year on
2023-06-06
With the HTTP/3 RFC celebrating its 1st birthday, we examined HTTP version usage trends between May 2022 - May 2023. We found that HTTP/3 usage by browsers continued to grow, but that search engine and social media bots continued to effectively ignore the latest version of the web’s core protocol...
HTTP RFCs have evolved: A Cloudflare view of HTTP usage trends
2022-06-06
HTTP/3 is now RFC 9114. We explore Cloudflare's view of how it is being used...
HPKE: Standardizing public-key encryption (finally!)
2022-02-24
HPKE (RFC 9180) was made to be simple, reusable, and future-proof by building upon knowledge from prior PKE schemes and software implementations. This article provides an overview of this new standard, going back to discuss its motivation, design goals, and development process...
Cloudflare and the IETF
2021-10-13
Cloudflare helps build a better Internet through collaboration on open and interoperable standards. This post will describe how Cloudflare contributes to the standardization process to enable incremental innovation and drive long-term architectural change....
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Exported Authenticators: The long road to RFC
Learn more about Exported Authenticators, a new extension to TLS, currently going through the IETF standardisation process....
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May 28, 2021 9:06 PM
QUIC Version 1 is live on Cloudflare
QUIC is a new fast and secure transport protocol. Version 1 has just been published as RFC 9000 and today Cloudflare has enabled support for all customers, come try it out. ...
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October 22, 2020 2:08 PM
A Last Call for QUIC, a giant leap for the Internet
QUIC and HTTP/3 are open standards that have been under development in the IETF for almost exactly 4 years. On October 21, 2020, following two rounds of Working Group Last Call, draft 32 of the family of documents that describe QUIC and HTTP/3 were put into IETF Last Call....
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October 13, 2020 1:00 PM
Cloudflare Access: now for SaaS apps, too
Teams can now secure SaaS applications with Zero Trust rules using Cloudflare Access....
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October 01, 2020 2:53 PM
NTS is now an RFC
After much hard work, NTS finally becomes an official RFC.This means that Network Time Security (NTS) is officially part of the collection of protocols that makes the Internet work. ...
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May 08, 2020 12:46 PM
CUBIC and HyStart++ Support in quiche
Congestion control and loss recovery play a big role in the QUIC transport protocol performance. We recently added support for CUBIC and HyStart++ to quiche, the library powering Cloudflare's QUIC, and lab-based testing shows promising results for performance in lossy network con...
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April 27, 2020 11:00 AM
Releasing kubectl support in Access
Starting today, you can use Cloudflare Access and Argo Tunnel to securely manage your Kubernetes cluster with the kubectl command-line tool. SSO requirements and a zero-trust model to your Kubernetes management in under 30 minutes....
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December 31, 2019 7:13 PM
Adopting a new approach to HTTP prioritization
HTTP prioritization is important for web performance. This is the story behind a new approach recently adopted for further work in the IETF....
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January 24, 2019 5:57 PM
HTTP/3: From root to tip
Explore HTTP/3 from root to tip and discover the backstory of this new HTTP syntax that works on top of the IETF QUIC transport....
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July 26, 2018 3:04 PM
The Road to QUIC
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....
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April 12, 2017 3:06 PM
Changing Internet Standards to Build A Secure Internet
We’ve been working with registrars and registries in the IETF on making DNSSEC easier for domain owners, and over the next two weeks we’ll be starting out by enabling DNSSEC automatically for .dk domains....
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April 18, 2016 8:47 AM
IETF Hackathon: Getting TLS 1.3 working in the browser
Over the last few years, the IETF community has been focused on improving and expanding the use of the technical foundations for Internet security....
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March 28, 2016 9:00 PM
Going to IETF 95? Join the TLS 1.3 hackathon
If you’re in Buenos Aires on April 2-3 and are interested in building, come join the IETF Hackathon. CloudFlare and Mozilla will be working on TLS 1.3, the first new version of TLS in eight years!...
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