> I have no clue why it's built on UDP though, do we just accept that the time has passed for truly new network protocols? Yes. According to my research, the I

> I have no clue why it's built on UDP though, do we just accept that the time has passed for truly new network protocols? Yes. According to my research, the Internets middleboxes are ossified and if they see a packet that’s not UDP or TCP they will silently drop it. SCTP was an past attempt to introduce a new protocol AFAIK https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stream_Control_Transmission_Protocol https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stream_Control_Transmission_Pr...