Re: [DMM] I-D Action: draft-ietf-dmm-ondemand-mobility-17.txt

Out of curiosity, why is the new API being portrayed as a system call
(setsc) instead of a socket option (the bar for adding a socket option
is much lower ).

Tom

On Fri, Feb 22, 2019 at 6:19 AM <internet-drafts@ietf.org> wrote:
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> A New Internet-Draft is available from the on-line Internet-Drafts directories.
> This draft is a work item of the Distributed Mobility Management WG of the IETF.
>
>         Title           : On Demand Mobility Management
>         Authors         : Alper Yegin
>                           Danny Moses
>                           Seil Jeon
>         Filename        : draft-ietf-dmm-ondemand-mobility-17.txt
>         Pages           : 18
>         Date            : 2019-02-22
>
> Abstract:
>    Applications differ with respect to whether they need session
>    continuity and/or IP address reachability.  The network providing the
>    same type of service to any mobile host and any application running
>    on the host yields inefficiencies, as described in [RFC7333].  This
>    document defines a new concep of enabling applications to influence
>    the network's mobility services (session continuity and/or IP address
>    reachability) on a per-Socket basis, and suggests extensions to the
>    networking stack's API to accomodate this concept.
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>
> The IETF datatracker status page for this draft is:
> https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-ietf-dmm-ondemand-mobility/
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> There are also htmlized versions available at:
> https://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-ietf-dmm-ondemand-mobility-17
> https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/draft-ietf-dmm-ondemand-mobility-17
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> A diff from the previous version is available at:
> https://www.ietf.org/rfcdiff?url2=draft-ietf-dmm-ondemand-mobility-17
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