Re: draft-cmetz-v6ops-v4mapped-api-harmful-00.txt and draft-itojun-v6ops-v4mapped-harmful-01.txt

[Mauro Tortonesi <mtortonesi@ing.unife.it>]

On Sat, 13 Sep 2003, Francis Dupont wrote:

>  In your previous mail you wrote:
>
>    	could you tell me why you don't use getaddrinfo(AI_PASSIVE) and obey
>    	the result?  by doing so your application will be totally address
>    	family independent (no AF_INET6 hardcoded) and will be future-proven
>    	(will work with SCTP, DCCP or even IPv8 :-).
>
> => you already know the answer: because I'd like to listen on only a socket.
> And this is address family independent (getaddrinfo is not defined for
> AF_ISO for instance) and transport protocol independent (it works with
> SCTP).

i don't think that your approach is really address family independent.


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