Re: mini-cores (was Re: ULA-C)

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

On 20-sep-2007, at 14:32, Keith Moore wrote:

> > If applications don't want to worry about addressing issues, the only
> > solution is that applications don't get to see addresses in the first
> > place.

> If you can find a good way to let hosts and network stacks sort out
> those addressing issues, then fewer applications will bother to manage
> those addresses themselves.  But absent such a way to do that (and
> trial-and-error is not a good way, nor is IPv6 "address selection")  
> then
> more applications will be forced to manage those addresses in order to
> provide decent service to users.

Well, a start would be a "connectbyname()" API call that takes care  
of name-to-address mapping and trying different addresses until one  
works.

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