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Re:HTTP/3: the past, the present, and the future by throw0101a on Thursday September 26, 2019 @11:51AM (#21082149)
> ... and transport protocols ...

Are you referring to Layer 4 here? SCTP and DCCP may want to have a word with you. :)

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Re:HTTP/3: the past, the present, and the future by dtech on Thursday September 26, 2019 @12:01PM (#21082274)
Which we so successfully introduced that they needed a way to tunnel over UDP [1] and still have very niche support compared to TCP and UDP.

[1] https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc6951

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Re:HTTP/3: the past, the present, and the future by takeda on Thursday September 26, 2019 @12:08PM (#21082367)
SCTP, DCCP are special case. Ideally those protocols supposed to be handled only by the endpoints, but over time the support of those protocols leaked to the network as well. Mainly because of wasteful allocation of IPv4 addresses we had to use NAT. A lot of that equipment makes other protocols impractical because they are not supporting them, even though initially they shouldn't have anything to do with them.

I suppose HTTPs equivalent of that would be various http proxies, but in that case barely anyone uses them.

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