This document discusses recent changes and improvements to core internet protocols like HTTP, DNS, and TCP. It introduces HTTP/2, which improves performance over HTTP/1.1 by allowing multiple requests per connection and header compression. It also discusses the development of QUIC, an experimental UDP-based protocol that aims to improve latency compared to TCP. Additionally, it covers DNS over HTTPS (DOH) which aims to increase privacy and censorship resistance by encrypting DNS queries over HTTPS. The document concludes that these protocols help accelerate the web by reducing round trips and blocking while securing more internet traffic.