Re: webpage for ipv6 programmers

[Pekka Savola <pekkas@netcore.fi>]

On Tue, 3 Feb 2009, Mikael Abrahamsson wrote:
> I wonder if anyone happen to know a good webpage or book for programmers and 
> what they need to know about programming applications in different 
> programming lanuages and script languages to make their programs IPv6 
> capable. Something like "classical way in <language> is to use <API> but the 
> new <API> is like this and should be used instead".
>
> I think we know a lot about how to enable our networks for IPv6, but we need 
> to educate a lot of programmers as well. There is plenty of references on how 
> to program to avoid buffer overflows, (use snprintf instead of printf), I 
> think we need equivalent for IPv6.

I don' think one exists.  For general case and C in particular, there 
are among others:

RFC4038
http://www.kame.net/newsletter/19980604/
http://gsyc.escet.urjc.es/~eva/IPv6-web/ipv6.html

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