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> On 4 Apr 2018, at 21:23, Michael Richardson <[email protected]> wrote: > > > Dave Taht <[email protected]> wrote: >> How dead is posix these days? Ietf does not generally do apis well. > > I disagree. > > IETF has lore says that it doesn't do APIs well, and so it's a > self-fullfiling prophecy. Everyone knows it's true without any actual > evidence, so nobody tries. > > Who does do APIs well today? Microsoft's API story is a disaster, > so despite decades of market dominance, their networking APIs are not > defacto standard. While it looks like Linux does APIs well, actually, > it just does a really good job at getting the public APIs implemented. > > The IPv6 BSD sockets API is a roaring success. > It's just not enough given MIF, DNSSD, IPsec, LISP, etc. The problem > space has expanded. > > The problem is getting API work funded across Google, Apple, MS, *BSD, > and Linux. fwiw, apple is on board of taps and actively involved, and the neat project ( www.neat-project.org ) made an open source library that runs on linux and bsd systems > > -- > ] Never tell me the odds! | ipv6 mesh networks [ > ] Michael Richardson, Sandelman Software Works | network architect [ > ] [email protected] http://www.sandelman.ca/ | ruby on rails > [ > _______________________________________________ Bloat mailing list [email protected] https://lists.bufferbloat.net/listinfo/bloat
