This is the link to MinimaLT (it runs on top of UDP instead of TCP). As of today I haven't seen an implementation and MinimaLT being a paper there are some ambiguous parts, but overall this looks like a really well defined spec. It tackles at least the cookie issue. It supports tunneling and it deals with DOS. The other real benefit is that it is RPC based, which means that the protocol is easy to extend (think about NFS and SSH alternatives) and maybe it could be the foundation of a new HTTP. AFAIK it doesn't deal with the CA certs / trust issue.