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       Title     : Basic Socket Interface Extensions for IPv6              
       Author(s) : R. Gilligan, S. Thomson, J. Bound, W. Stevens
       Filename  : draft-ietf-ipngwg-bsd-api-07.txt
       Pages     : 40
       Date      : 01/30/1997

The de facto standard application program interface (API) for TCP/IP 
applications is the "sockets" interface.  Although this API was developed 
for Unix in the early 1980s it has also been implemented on a wide variety 
of non-Unix systems.  TCP/IP applications written using the sockets API 
have in the past enjoyed a high degree of portability and we would like the
same portability with IPv6 applications.  But changes are required to the 
sockets API to support IPv6 and this memo describes these changes.  These 
include a new socket address structure to carry IPv6 addresses, new address
conversion functions, and some new socket options.  These extensions are 
designed to provide access to the basic IPv6 features required by TCP and 
UDP applications, including multicasting, while introducing a minimum of 
change into the system and providing complete compatibility for existing 
IPv4 applications.  Additional extensions for advanced IPv6 features (raw 
sockets and access to the IPv6 extension headers) are defined in another 
document [5].                                                              

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