I respectfully disagree. Many of the elements of tcp are very complicated, and more or less of a hack. Compose them all together, and it's a hugely complex and arguably ugly (if utilitarian) standard.
RINA is a beautiful new redesign of the networking stack wherein "computer networking is just inter-process communication."
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Recursive_InterNetwork_Archi...
I respectfully disagree. Many of the elements of tcp are very complicated, and more or less of a hack. Compose them all together, and it's a hugely complex and arguably ugly (if utilitarian) standard.