Folks,
An updated version of the IPv6 address selection API
draft has been published (see below). Over the years,
this draft has been reviewed by many participants to
the IPv6 WG, and has been supported by many of them.
Their feedback has been incorporated in successive
revision of the draft. There are also serious
implementers waiting for this draft to be published.
Therefore, we'd like this draft to be published as an
Informational RFC.
What do you think?
Best,
--julien
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A New Internet-Draft is available from the on-line
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Title : IPv6 Socket API for Address Selection
Author(s) : E. Nordmark, et al.
Filename :
draft-chakrabarti-ipv6-addrselect-api-05.txt
Pages : 34
Date : 2007-3-7
The IPv6 default address selection document [RFC3484]
describes the
rules for selecting source and destination IPv6
addresses, and
indicates that applications should be able to
reverse the sense of
some of the address selection rules through some
unspecified API.
However, no such socket API exists in the basic
[RFC3493] or advanced
[RFC3542] IPv6 socket API documents. This document
fills that gap by
specifying new socket level options and flags for
the getaddrinfo()
API to specify preferences for address selection
that modify the
default address selection algorithm. The socket API
described in
this document will be particularly useful for IPv6
applications that
want to choose between temporary and public
addresses, and for Mobile
IPv6 aware applications that want to use the care-of
address for
communication.
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Title : IPv6 Socket API for Address Selection
Author(s) : E. Nordmark, et al.
Filename : draft-chakrabarti-ipv6-addrselect-api-05.txt
Pages : 34
Date : 2007-3-7
The IPv6 default address selection document [RFC3484] describes the
rules for selecting source and destination IPv6 addresses, and
indicates that applications should be able to reverse the sense of
some of the address selection rules through some unspecified API.
However, no such socket API exists in the basic [RFC3493] or advanced
[RFC3542] IPv6 socket API documents. This document fills that gap by
specifying new socket level options and flags for the getaddrinfo()
API to specify preferences for address selection that modify the
default address selection algorithm. The socket API described in
this document will be particularly useful for IPv6 applications that
want to choose between temporary and public addresses, and for Mobile
IPv6 aware applications that want to use the care-of address for
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