Subject: [quicwg/base-drafts] What is "legacy clients" in transport draft? (#578)

From: Magnus Westerlund <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 05 Jun 2017 10:31:03 -0700

Section 1, has the following sentence:

Using UDP as the substrate, QUIC seeks to
   be compatible with legacy clients and middleboxes.

What does it mean to be compatible with legacy clients? 

Being compatible with a legacy client appears to imply that one can have a meaningful interaction, I don't see how that is possible. Is it the aspect that one can deploy on existing operating systems without operating system modifcations that one is after? In that case, please reformulate. 

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