This api is not going to standards track it is in informational RFC ONLY.
The real standard for the API will be done by the IEEE 1003 committee and
we are trying to get them to work with the IETF experts here.
They have adopted 2553-bis-03.txt style. Its a done deal.
What is open for discussion is the 4+28 split for the sin6_scopeid
/jim
"Shout it out G.L.O.R.I.A." (Them [Van Morrison])
On Mon, 25 Jun 2001, Mauro Tortonesi wrote:
> On Mon, 25 Jun 2001, JINMEI Tatuya / [ISO-2022-JP] 神明達哉 wrote:
>
> > ...however, those corrections do not affect the main stream of this
> > discussion. We've fully, fully discussed this (in the apifolks list),
> > and have seen so many different views, and, as a consequence, could
> > not reach consensus on a single unified behavior. Sad to say this,
> > but I don't think we'll be able to force vendors a particular behavior
> > based on a particular view of the model, like "the correct thing is to
> > deprecate IPv4-mapped IPv6 addresses"...
>
> then why bothering to write RFC2553? if any ISV can do what he wants it
> has been only a useless effort.
>
> your arguments don't seem to have moche sense to me. rather, the
> discussion should be re-opened and, as a result, a new proposed
> standard should be produced.
>
> > So, IMHO, the only feasible thing we can do now is to accept the
> > differences of various implementations, and make a guidance of how to
> > deal with the differences with a minimum effort.
>
> this would be a BIG mistake, IMVHO. it is imperative to produce
> a standard for BSD socket extensions, or we can forget the word
> "code portability" for the next 50 years...
>
> --
> Aequam memento rebus in arduis servare mentem...
>
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