well - they have been refusing too long to do them at all. i guess that’s part 
of the problem

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> On 4 Apr 2018, at 09:42, Dave Taht <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> 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
>> 
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