Re: Developing IP version-independent Applications

[itojun@itojun.org (Jun-ichiro itojun Hagino)]

> Hi,
> 
> Unless I hear otherwise shortly, I'm suggesting we address your 
> comments by adding a new paragraph after the 1st in section 4.4:
> 
>   The most important case is the application support on
>   systems where IPv6 support can be dynamically enabled or disabled
>   by the users.  Applications on such a system should be able to able to
>   handle the situation where IPv6 would not be enabled.  The secondary
>   scenario is when an application could be deployed on older systems
>   which do not support IPv6 at all (even the basic getaddrinfo
>   etc. APIs).  In that case the application designer has to make a
>   case-by-case judgement call whether it makes sense to have compile-time
>   toggle between an older and newer API (having to support both in the
>   code), or whether to provide getaddrinfo etc. function support on
>   older platforms as part of the application libraries.
> 
> .. would this satisfy your concerns, Jason?

	it looks ok to me, and reflects current practice.

itojun