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> It completely ignores that the "port number" abstraction for service identification has completely failed due to the industry glomming onto HTTP as some sort of universal tunnel encapsulation for all application-layer protocols.

Nobody forces them though. It would be much easier to publish a standard port number mapping than to develop a (or multiple) new protocols. Now you just need to motivate people to use it.




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