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As someone who is interested in computer history and those roads not travelled, I can understand the sentiment. Another way to think of it is that innovation is
by tdeck 7mo ago
As someone who is interested in computer history and those roads not travelled, I can understand the sentiment. Another way to think of it is that innovation is happening at higher levels of the stack, and I'm not sure whether that's a bad thing. We also haven't tried much beyond UDP and TCP in those decades, other attempts at QoS networking and the like have failed. But UDP and TCP are still working out more or less and the ability to have a standard lets us focus on other things.
- fragmede 7mo agoThere was SCTP and a couple others but in practice anything not TCP or UDP is blocked by middle boxes and also NAT traversal is a problem. QUIC has been successful but that rides on top of UDP. Specialized networks (eg telecom backhauls) still see use of specialized protocols and those are large deployments. The big thing that's been an ongoing experiment in networking with mixed results is IPv6 which is at a lower level of the stack.