Re: SCTP API draft (was Re: New "IP Version 6 Addressing Architecture" draft)

[Kacheong Poon]

> Forget the socket level option--just adopt the SCTP solution in
> general.  If you are going to allow binding to subsets of addresses
> you might as well make it completely general.

Allowing bind() to subsets of addresses does not necessarily mean that such
option is of no use.  A SCTP app may not want to find out all v6 addresses
in a machine (the way to find out is probably OS dependent) to bind() to.
And it just wants to deal with associations using only v6 addresses.  In the
current SCTP API draft, there is no way to do that.  Since we want code to
be OS independent, having such an option may not be a bad idea.

                                                        K. Poon.
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