Quick UDP Internet Connections (QUIC) has been approved by the Internet Engineering Taskforce (IETF), graduating from an eight-year development process to a certified standard – RFC 9000. Promising more efficient networking, the new protocols sound like a boon for the video industry, which is grappling with how to reduce latency in streaming video applications. Currently, new transport protocols SRT and RIST look like the best remedy to that problem. Essentially, they use the ‘fire and forget’ UDP protocol as the basis, and then add some improvements on top, rather than deal with the latency that gets added when using TCP – where individual connections have to be established and reconfirmed continuously. Google began experimenting with QUIC in 2013, after developing…