[derrickrburns]

Funny. I worked at AT&T Bell Labs in the 80s. All of these insights seem eerily familiar.

[tptacek]

Sure; they're also similar to the SCTP insights, from the late 1990s.

[Animats]

Yup. Also QNX native networking protocol. QNX's basic networking primitive is a remote procedure call. So there's a message-oriented network protocol underneath. It can be run either on top of UDP or directly at the IP level.