http://www.w3.org/Protocols/HTTP-NG/http-ng-scp.html http://www.w3.org/Protocols/HTTP-NG/http-ng-scp.html had some similar ideas which when combined with http:/

http://www.w3.org/Protocols/HTTP-NG/http-ng-scp.html http://www.w3.org/Protocols/HTTP-NG/http-ng-scp.html had some similar ideas which when combined with http://www.faqs.org/rfcs/rfc998.html http://www.faqs.org/rfcs/rfc998.html gives you this SPDY. But how do you gain adoption of such a tech across clients and servers (which was the problem with pipelining) will be an interesting question to see