I think a much more interesting protocol to have in the kernel would
be Bell Labs' IL. It's implemented in Plan 9, and they say they are
very happy with its performance. It's a sequenced packet protocol,
ideal for NFS, CORBA messages and pretty much anything which currently
either implements its own out-of-order + retransmit strategy over UDP
or puts packet boundaries into TCP.
There's a description of the protocol at
http://plan9.bell-labs.com/plan9/doc/il.html
I have the barest bones of a start at a linux implementation of it,
if anyone wants to collaborate :-)
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