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by bigbango 4268 days ago
> and we need something to improve things now

I disagree. Nothing is needed now, HTTP/1 is not broken and it works well enough.

There should be time enough to come up with a clean design. Even if it requires designing a new transport protocol.

Rolling out a new transport protocol like SCTP takes a lot less time than rolling out a new network protocol like IPv6. Transport protocols only runs on the endpoints, not on the routers in the network.

Except for firewalls and NAT'ing home routers, but if HTTP/1 over SCTP would result in a faster better browsing experience the problem would solve itself.