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I don't know what a replacement for the web would look like.

But it seems apparent to me that it will have to work over HTTP/QUIC, and TCP port 443.

Which prompts the obvious question ...



As a friendly reminder, SRV records exist and are great at fixing that magic port syndrome (unless you were hinting at the infinite corporate firewall appliances, for which I have no magic fix)


Right. Egress on anything other than tcp/443 is probably a non-starter for any new protocol.

The question I was alluding to is: if it's HTTP-ish over tcp/443, wouldn't it still be the web anyway?

But thinking about it more, the server could easily select a protocol based on the first chunk of the client request. And the example of RTP suggests that maybe even TCP would be optional.




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