Re: [Int-area] Name based sockets

Joe Touch <touch@isi.edu> Fri, 06 August 2010 17:15 UTC

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On 8/2/2010 9:37 AM, Alex Burr wrote:
> [cc'd to int-area, but since I'm not subscribed it may not get through there]
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> Javier,
>      This looks very interesting. Maybe I'm missing something, but from an API
> perspective, if you are going to the trouble of abstracting the address from the
> application by making it a name, it seems anomalous to leave the port as a
> number. Have you thought about making the port a name too?

See: http://www.isi.edu/touch/pubs/draft-touch-tcp-portnames-00.txt

Joe