>>>>> On Fri, 21 Mar 2003 00:39:12 +0100,
>>>>> Francis Dupont <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:
> A draft has been submitted to address source address selection at
> the per-socket (and per apps) basis. Currently it discusses preferences
> of source address selection by the application for privacy addresses,
> mobileipv6 addresses and Cryptographically generated addresses.
> Thus the application can reverse the sense of default source address
> selection by using the proposed APIs.
> => I have a major concern about the style of the API: it is at the
> socket level ([gs]etsockopt()) when it should be in the context of
> applications:
> - nobody wants to modify every applications in order to use the API
> (an unfortunately many applications can want to toggle one of the
> address selection knobs)
> - at the opposite a global knob is not flexible again.
I tend to agree, but do you have any concrete and feasible suggestion
to implement this?
JINMEI, Tatuya
Communication Platform Lab.
Corporate R&D Center, Toshiba Corp.
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