Re: shim - transport/app communication

[Iljitsch van Beijnum <iljitsch@muada.com>]

On 27-mrt-05, at 18:56, Bound, Jim wrote:

> Your completely missing the point of 3493 and some of the most 
> brilliant
> and serious network programmers in the IETF worked on this API for
> years.

Hm, if success depends on years of work by the most brilliant people 
around, this indicates that there is a problem somewhere...

> In addition 3493 permits a
> means to program with IPv4 and IPv6 in address family indepdent manner.

You said it: IPv4 and IPv6. What about IPs v7 - 15 ?

Also, I assume you're talking about IPv4-mapped addresses. I think 
those are great but unfortunately there are others who disagree and 
failed to implement them, which makes writing IP version agnostic 
impossible on some systems and therefore non-portable on all systems.

But I suggest we agree to disagree, at least on this list.  :-)