Fw: I-D ACTION:draft-ietf-ipngwg-rfc2553bis-01.txt

["Thomas Trede" <]

FYI.

Regards,
  Thomas Trede

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> This draft is a work item of the IPNG Working Group of the IETF.
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> Title : Basic Socket Interface Extensions for IPv6
> Author(s) : R. Gilligan, S. Thomson, J. Bound, W. Stevens
> Filename : draft-ietf-ipngwg-rfc2553bis-01.txt
> Pages : 31
> Date : 26-Oct-00
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> The de facto standard application program interface (API) for TCP/IP
> applications is the 'sockets' interface.  Although this API was
> developed for Unix in the early 1980s it has also been implemented on a
> wide variety of non-Unix systems.  TCP/IP applications written using the
> sockets API have in the past enjoyed a high degree of portability and we
> would like the same portability with IPv6 applications.  But changes are
> required to the sockets API to support IPv6 and this memo describes
> these changes.  These include a new socket address structure to carry
> IPv6 addresses, new address conversion functions, and some new socket
> options.  These extensions are designed to provide access to the basic
> IPv6 features required by TCP and UDP applications, including
> multicasting, while introducing a minimum of change into the system and
> providing complete compatibility for existing IPv4 applications.
> Additional extensions for advanced IPv6 features (raw sockets and access
> to the IPv6 extension headers) are defined in another document [4].
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