Re: in6_pktinfo etc still missing in POSIX specs

In message <200810141624.m9EGO8uY019875@cichlid.raleigh.ibm.com>, Thomas Narten
 writes:
> I'm not involved in this in detail, so I may be off base, but my
> understanding is that the advanced API has not been picked up by Open
> Group because its members didn't support doing so -- they just didn't
> see a need to.

	One shouldn't have to have OS specific knowledge to write
	IPv6 code.  Failure of POSIX to ratify the advanced API is
	causing that to happen.  This is not conjecture.  It is fact.

	We need more standisation not less.

	The following was just committed to the BIND sources.

2463.   [port]          linux: POSIX doesn't include the IPv6 Advanced Socket
                        API and glibc hides parts of the IPv6 Advanced Socket
                        API as a result.  This is stupid as it breaks how the
                        two halves (Basic and Advanced) of the IPv6 Socket API                          were designed to be used but we have to live with it.
                        Define _GNU_SOURCE to pull in the IPv6 Advanced Socket
                        API. [RT #18388]

> My own take is that standardization of the advanced API just isn't
> compelling. When I did a survey in the past of what various vendors
> had done with the advanced API, I found that none implemented it
> completely. Rather, most implemented bits and pieces of it depending
> on what applications needed the funcitonality (or just implemented
> private versions for the applications that needed the
> functionality). And since the functionality in the adnvanced API (by
> definition) isn't needed accept by fairly exotic usages, it's hard to
> make the arguement that it needs to be implemented for basic
> interoperability.
> 
> Thomas
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