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Related: SPDY - Google's always-encrypted application-level protocol to augment HTTP:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SPDY

I would rather see SCTP, I mean, something standard, than a hack up on top of existing protocols, even if that's slower to implement.

Now then again SPDY is indeed fast and encrypted

This is also interesting:

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=spdy

SCTP is at a different layer of the network stack -- it's a replacement for TCP, not for HTTP. As such, it's much more difficult to deploy, as it currently requires a kernel extension in most OSes, and can't traverse most firewalls.

Also, it isn't encrypted. So there's that too.

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