Re: sockets APIs extensions for Host Identity Protocol

[Keith Moore <[e-mail]>]

> If I change my "connectbyname" code again, I will change it once more
> to use a new OS API that hides all the v4 vs. v6 vs. HIP vs. whatever
> junk, preferably to something much simpler than the code today.  If
> such an API isn't produced, I will be very reluctant to change that
> code no matter how cool HIP might or might not be.

If you can figure out how to write that kind of code in a way that works
well for a wide variety of applications, with different requirements for
bandwidth, stability, mobility, etc. all of which affect address
selection, interface selection, etc., and do all of that efficiently and
in the absence of routing information from the network, you should
probably get a prize of some sort.

Granted that programmers want a simple interface, but the more complex
the network gets, the more apps will be expected to do jobs that were
supposed to be done at layer 3.

Keith