[simcop2387]

This is one reason that I'm still upset about the failure that SCTP has ended up. It really did try to create a new protocol for dealing with exactly all of these issues but support and ossification basically meant it's a non-starter. I'd have loved if it was a mandatory part of IPv6 so that it'd eventually get useful support but I'm pretty sure that would have made IPv6 adoption even worse.

[Veserv]

Well we have QUIC now which layers over UDP and is functionally strictly superior to SCTP as SCTP still suffered from head-of-line blocking due to bad acknowledgement design.

[lxgr]

As long as you're fine with UDP encapsulation, you can definitely use SCTP today! WebRTC data channels do, for example.