Let me offer one thought here. I'm -0 on including this patch in Apache for one very simple reason. We are a standards-based server. Yes, UDP is a clear standard, as is HTTP. But in order to incorporate your patch, I would want to see nothing less than a draft RFC explaining the what and why of what you are accomplishing, with community review.
I don't see what "standards-based" as to do with the discussion, unless somebody is proposing to distribute the whole #! with Apache httpd. Independent of our standards-based HTTP implementation, we have an infrastructure that can be useful for implementors of other protocols. Whether those protocols are standards based or not is not the concern of the infrastructure.
I thought the issue at hand was how to make it straightforward for a 3rd-party module to accomplish a specific task within the Apache server framework.
