The Protocol Digest
Travis L. Guckert
LeMay Publishing
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The Protocol Digest
Digest5,576 words23 chapters
Published by LeMay Publishing. 5,576 words across 23 chapters.
About This Publication
Monthly digest of protocol specifications, standards updates, and infrastructure engineering developments.
Published by LeMay Publishing, a division of LeMay. Massachusetts.
ISBN: 979-8-0000-5196-2
Chapters
1THE PROTOCOL DIGEST
2Volume 1 · Number 1 · January 2026
3CONTENTS
4FROM THE ENGINEERING DESK
5Prefatory Remarks
6I. STANDARDS IN MOTION
7A Summary of Ratified and Pending Protocol Specifications
8II. THE CONVERGENCE OF QUIC AND HTTP/3: YEAR THREE IN PRODUCTION
9A Technical Assessment
10III. POST-QUANTUM KEY EXCHANGE IN TLS 1.3: ML-KEM AND THE TRANSITION MANDATE
11Infrastructure Engineering Analysis
12IV. DNS OVER HTTPS AT SCALE: OPERATIONAL REALITIES AND ARCHITECTURAL TRADE-OFFS
13Field Report
14V. THE MATTER 1.4 SPECIFICATION AND THE FUTURE OF IOT INTEROPERABILITY
15Standards Review
16VI. IPV6 ADOPTION METRICS: 2025 YEAR-END ASSESSMENT
17Data Brief
18VII. RFC WATCH
19Notable Publications from the IETF, Q4 2025
20VIII. INFRASTRUCTURE NOTEBOOK
21Short Items on BGP Security, Wi-Fi 7, and the 3GPP Release 19 Timeline
22ENDNOTES
23REFERENCES AND FURTHER READING