Is it still possible to extend TCP?

By Michio Honda, Yoshifumi Nishida, Costin Raiciu, Adam Greenhalgh, Mark James Handley, H. Tokuda. ACM/SIGCOMM Internet Measurement Conference, 2011

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The QUIC Transport Protocol: Design and Internet-Scale Deployment (2017, background): “As a result, even modifying TCP remains challenging due to its ossification by middleboxes [29, 49, 54].”
Design and Implementation of a Consolidated Middlebox Architecture (2012, background): “Middlebox measurements: Studies have measured the end-to-end impact of middleboxes [10] and interactions with transport protocols [24].”
How Hard Can It Be? Designing and Implementing a Deployable Multipath TCP (2012, methodology): “Does such a handshake still work? We performed a large study to test this - complete results are available in [9].”
Multipath QUIC: Design and Evaluation (2017, methodology): “Despite the proliferation of middleboxes [22], TCP continues to be incrementally improved [14] with recent extensions including Multipath TCP [17] or TCPCrypt [3].”