Comment by bmicraft
Well, it seem like is was originally, but isn't now and hasn't been at date of publication.
Edit:
> The initial QUIC protocol was designed by Jim Roskind at Google and was initially implemented in 2012, announced publicly to the world in 2013 when Google's experimentation broadened.
> Back then, QUIC was still claimed to be an acronym for "Quick UDP Internet Connections", but that has been dropped since then.