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Title : IPv6 Socket API for source address selection
Author(s) : E. Nordmark, S. Chakrabarti et al.
Filename : draft-chakrabarti-ipv6-addrselect-api-00.txt
Pages : 9
Date : 2003-2-24
The IPv6 default address selection document describes the rules for
selecting default source address by the system and indicates that
the applications should be able to reverse the sense of system
preference of source address selection for that application through
possible API extensions. However, no such socket APIs exist in the
basic or advanced IPv6 socket API documents. Hence this document
specifies socket level options to prefer a particular source
address as per the choice of the applications. It also discusses
implications on the name-to-address translation API that performs
part of the default address selection. The socket APIs described in
this document will be particularly useful for Mobile IPv6 enabled
applications and other IPv6 applications which want to choose
between temporary and public addresses, CGA (cryptographically
generated addresses) and non-CGA addresses etc..
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