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So much existing infrastructure only supports TCP and UDP that a new protocol at that level is pretty much a non-starter. UDP is lightweight enough that you ca

by cbr 13y ago

So much existing infrastructure only supports TCP and UDP that a new protocol at that level is pretty much a non-starter. UDP is lightweight enough that you can put SCTP on top of UDP, but at that point you might as well make something optimized for that use case, which is why Google is working on QUIC.

goaway 13y ago
This is exactly the case. It is an explicit goal of the SPDY and HTTP/2 projects to be something that can actually be deployed on the current internet.