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Does anyone else have the thought that maybe it's time to just replace these 30+ year old ancient protocols? Seems like the entire networking stack is held together with string and duct tape and unnecessarily complicated.
A lot of the decisions made sense somewhat in the 80s and 90s, but seems ridiculous in this day and age lmao
Some ancient protocols get replaced gradually though. Look at http3 not using TCP anymore. I mean at least it's something.
HTTP3 uses UDP, which is 6 years younger than TCP.
Nope, it uses a protocol on top of UDP called QUIC. If you count underlying protocols further down the stack, obviously all of them are really old.