@gentoobro @lispi314 @rheaplex a lot of reinventions of TCP came about because TCP is hopeless and they wouldn't allow us to have SCTP. SCTP has some really neat bennies but they just refuse to roll out any hardware with it.

so we had to reinvent the world on UDP, which had lead to a lot of incompatible reinventions.

even for things like streaming they'ev basically kept all of the effective multicast protocols locked away in to the private TV networks and refused to let the greater internet have them