On Mon, Jul 23, 2018 at 5:21 PM Tommy Pauly <tpa...@apple.com> wrote: > > Picking this thread up again, I would like to see us incorporate IPv6 address > selection into a post-sockets API model. > > Here's a straw man proposal of how we can expose this via the TAPS Interface: > > - A new property for Local Address Preference, which can be a tuple of: > 1. Stable/Public > 2. Temporary/Private > 3. Unique For Connection > - Listeners would default to (1). Connections would default to (2) > - If you specify (3), the system will try to get an entirely new IPv6 address > that has never been used before > - You can find out the address you used on your Listener/Connection > > This type of API would allow us to add in the functionality Erik had asked > for, to allow a client to be able to request a new address. The other > alternative would be to have some out-of-band API to request a new API, but I > think marking this on a connection is preferable, since it allows us to > enforce this per-path and per-protocol even. > > What do people think?
Perhaps unsurprisingly, I am fond of this API. Would it be feasible for connections to default to (3) and fall back to (2) if unsuccessful? Best, Chris _______________________________________________ Taps mailing list Taps@ietf.org https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/taps
