Quic on Aayush Bajaj's Augmenting Infrastructurehttps://abaj.ai/tags/quic/Recent content in Quic on Aayush Bajaj's Augmenting InfrastructureHugoen© 2026 Aayush BajajThu, 09 Jul 2026 21:02:37 +1000Internet Networkshttps://abaj.ai/wiki/ccs/networking/Thu, 09 Jul 2026 21:02:56 +1000https://abaj.ai/wiki/ccs/networking/<p>the internet is a triumph of indirection: no layer trusts the one below to be reliable, timely, or even present, and yet a packet leaves your laptop, crosses a dozen autonomous systems owned by companies that actively dislike each other, and arrives.<span class="margin-note" data-note="the design bet — smart edges, dumb core — is called the end-to-end principle"> <span class="margin-note-indicator">𐃏</span> </span> this page walks the stack bottom-up, then follows one HTTP request through DNS, TCP, and TLS to see every layer earn its keep.</p>