Had the OSI network model won out eons ago we would have enough separation between layers to use custom protocols. For better or worse, that battle was long dec

Had the OSI network model won out eons ago we would have enough separation between layers to use custom protocols. For better or worse, that battle was long decided by TCP/IP and the two have been tightly intertwined ever since. It's too bad but at the same time running custom protocols on UDP really isn't too bad as far as CPU/Space overhead. It's pretty much become a universal encapsulation protocol for everything else