In the draft at <http://dev.w3.org/cvsweb/~checkout~/2006/webapi/
network-api/network-api.html?rev=1.2&content-type=text/html;%
20charset=iso-8859-1>, there's a prominent statement;
This interface does not allow for raw access to the underlying
network. For example, this interface could not be used to implement
an IRC client without proxying messages through a custom server.
What does that mean, exactly? Are you quietly defining a new
application-layer protocol here, or a profile of TCP?
Also, "raw sockets" generally means a socket API that allows access
to packet headers. Is that the meaning you intend here?
Cheers,
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Mark Nottingham [EMAIL PROTECTED]
