You still need a protocol for point to point and maybe that's where QUIC plays a role, but wouldn't make more sense to use something like email?
The distances and latencies are so large, that you want to send a file to the next hop in the network, and from there to the next one, and so on.
https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc4838
It makes no sense to use a protocol where the source is the one responsible for taking care of retransmission when the network spans accross minutes/hours of delay.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Delay-tolerant_networking
* https://datatracker.ietf.org/group/dtn/about/
You still need a protocol for point to point and maybe that's where QUIC plays a role, but wouldn't make more sense to use something like email?
The distances and latencies are so large, that you want to send a file to the next hop in the network, and from there to the next one, and so on.