Comment by IgorPartola

The obnoxious thing is that overly aggressive firewalls have killed any IP protocols that are not TCP or UDP. Even ICMP is often blocked or partially blocked.

In the mean time we could have had nice things: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stream_Control_Transmission_Pr...

SCTP would be a fantastic protocol for HTTP/HTTPS. Pipelining, multi homing, multi streaming, oh my.