Subject: Fwd: Re: Last Call: draft-chakrabarti-ipv6-addrselect-api (IPv6 Socket API for Address Selection) to Informational RFC

From: Julien Laganier <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 6 Jun 2007 09:24:37 +0200

[ I'm forwarding Samita's answer to [email-masked] on 
her behalf. ]

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Subject: Re: Last Call: 
draft-chakrabarti-ipv6-addrselect-api (IPv6 Socket API 
for Address Selection) to Informational RFC
Date: Tuesday 05 June 2007 20:44
From: "Samita Chakrabarti" <[email-masked]>
To: "Narayanan, Vidya" <[email-masked]>
Cc: [email-masked], [email-masked], "Julien 
Laganier" <[email-masked]>

Hi Vidya,

The following comment has been addressed already as
 part of Ted Hardie's comments. A new API will  be
 provided to select/bind the preferred source address
 before connect().

Thanks,
-Samita

On 6/4/07, Narayanan, Vidya <[email-masked]> 
wrote:
> All,
> I'm passing along a comment from one of our
> developers.  Sorry, I have not closely read the
> draft myself. But, if more clarification is needed,
> I'll be happy to get more information.
>
> In section 13, the draft describes a procedure
> applications should follow in case they require to
> use the address according to the selection
> preferences specified (they should not communicate
> with 'wrong' address and fail). The procedure
> requires the application to do a 'connect()' in step
> 3. The application may not even want to connect (may
> be a TCP application) in case it is not getting a
> non-preferred address. There should be a procedure
> described for such applications too.
>
> Thanks,
> Vidya
>
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> > Subject: Last Call:
> > draft-chakrabarti-ipv6-addrselect-api (IPv6 Socket
> > API for Address Selection) to Informational RFC
> >
> > The IESG has received a request from an individual
> > submitter to consider the following document:
> >
> > - 'IPv6 Socket API for Address Selection '
> >    <draft-chakrabarti-ipv6-addrselect-api-05.txt>
> > as an Informational RFC
> >
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> >rti-ipv6-add
>
> rselect-api-05.txt
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