> You could make a listener on a name without having “root” access to the machine. You can do that with IP as well (just not the 'well known' ports <1024). >

> You could make a listener on a name without having “root” access to the machine. You can do that with IP as well (just not the 'well known' ports <1024). > But the biggest difference for me was that record boundaries survived the stream so all the “how am I going to frame this data” part of protocol design was already handled. You might want to look into RPC for IP then instead of HTTP.