I have seen that Preethi Natarajan had already developed a patch for
SCTP support for Apache:
https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=37202
I do personally believe that SCTP would be the better choice over
SPDY/QUIC since recent research has pointed out that current SPDY/QUIC
implementations are not as efficient as old style TCP in terms of
average utilized bandwidth and overhead. SCTP and QUIC both solve the
Head-of-Line blocking problem for concurrent streams. This is not only
important for video transmission over HTTP (DASH, HLS, HTML5 video) but
can also speed up the general page load time. HTTP/1.1 via SCTP would be
a much simpler and to my mind the preferable solution. SPDY/QUIC pushes
all the complexity to the user space. However up to now kernel
developers have done the better job in implementing transport level
protocols. Besides this SCTP also supports multihoming and can thus
resolve the 'parking lot problem' as QUIC can do (change of IP address
when changing the connection from Wifi to LTE).
There has already been an SCTP patch for Firefox as well as support
for Chrome. I believe HTTP over SCTP would be enabled quickly for all
major browsers if sufficient support from the server side was given.
My question is: Why do you not enable SCTP for Apache? It would be
straight forward, easy to do and very useful!
