What people usually want is all the bells and whistles of TCP without the occasional huge latency spike introduced by the guaranteed ordered packet delivery to the application layer.
Unfortunately, all the alternatives (SCTP etc etc) seem to have foundered, probably due to aggressive filtering by border routers/firewalls making it impossible for alternative protocols to gain traction.
Unfortunately, all the alternatives (SCTP etc etc) seem to have foundered, probably due to aggressive filtering by border routers/firewalls making it impossible for alternative protocols to gain traction.