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FooBarWidget on Oct 21, 2013 | parent | context | favorite | on: Making HTTP realtime with HTTP 2.0

You can't address things in TCP. There is so much network infrastructure deployed that trying to push any non-backward compatible change in TCP is futile. Google did the right thing by addressing the problems in layer 5.

comex on Oct 21, 2013 [–]

Then just tunnel on top of UDP, like QUIC currently does. Doesn't mean it has to be specific to one application.

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