This is not new. This is an attempt to make something that has existed for decades seem new, hip, and edgy. Prefixing "no" to existing traditional technologies does not make something new or cool.
The only people who would buy into this are people who have no experience with networking, and thus this would only affect their probable usage of libraries down the road with the wrong intentions.
Hell, I don't even know who this is really suppose to address. My best guess is people with very little knowledge of network protocols and their usages.
I don't think they are. Other than the first paragraph, with its self-deprecation and references to Node.js and NoSQL, which seems intended to head-off the derision such a hipsterish manifesto would rightly incur, the rest seems entirely serious.
The very last link in their "are you serious?" section is the sentence "Or maybe you have some clue about how the internet actually works, and you don’t need a manifesto to tell you what you already know" with a link to an article titled "TCP doesn't suck, and all the proposed bufferbloat fixes are identical." I read the whole thing as a joke, and I don't see anything that suggests otherwise anywhere in it.
Seriously, how can you read "just as the Reactive Manifesto reminded us that new branding can give a youthful glow to decades-old ideas" as anything but funny?
I'm a NoSQL developer and I've been watching protocols like WebRTC and CoAP mature over the years. It's fun for me to see someone shine a spotlight on the area, even if it isn't exactly new.
UDP can do things TCP can't do, I think it's worth exploring.
The only people who would buy into this are people who have no experience with networking, and thus this would only affect their probable usage of libraries down the road with the wrong intentions.
Hell, I don't even know who this is really suppose to address. My best guess is people with very little knowledge of network protocols and their usages.