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You just described, almost without discrepancy, X.25.

That does not necessarily mean anything or diminish the value of what you're suggesting; it is simply worth noting that this has been done before (and fell by the wayside decades ago).




I doubt X.25 abstracts away L4 and L7! You still need port numbers so you still need HTTP for everything, application unpacking at the load balancer, a service mesh, etc. X.25 seems to end at the network layer.


It also sounds a bit like email bang paths. In the old (UUCP) days, you could manually route your email: host1!host2!host3!joe




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