How dead is posix these days? Ietf does not generally do apis well. On Tue, Apr 3, 2018, 9:14 AM Michael Welzl <[email protected]> wrote:
> > On Apr 3, 2018, at 4:48 PM, Jesper Louis Andersen < > [email protected]> wrote: > > On Tue, Apr 3, 2018 at 4:27 PM Michael Welzl <[email protected]> wrote: > >> please, please, people, take a look at the ietf taps (“transport >> services”) working group :-) >> >> > I tried looking it up. It seems the TAPS WG is about building a consistent > interface to different protocols in order to get a new interface rather > than, say, the bsd socket interface. > > But my search turned up several drafts from the WG. Did you have one in > particular in mind? > > > Thanks for taking a look! > Indeed, it’s about a consistent interface - I was provoked to send this > message by the reference to ossification, and talk of messages (lacking in > TCP). > Sure, when you’re in control of both ends of a connection, you can build > whatever you want on top of UDP - but there’s a lot of wheel re-inventing > there. Really, the transport layer can’t change as long as applications (or > their libraries) are exposed to only the services of TCP and UDP, and > thereby statically bound to these transport protocols. > > I think I’d recommend this draft as a starting point: > https://taps-api.github.io/drafts/draft-trammell-taps-interface.html > > Cheers, > Michael > > _______________________________________________ > Bloat mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.bufferbloat.net/listinfo/bloat >
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