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Re: Fwd: I-D ACTION:draft-chakrabarti-ipv6-addrselect-api-05.txt

Brian E Carpenter <brc@zurich.ibm.com> Fri, 16 March 2007 14:24 UTC

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Subject: Re: Fwd: I-D ACTION:draft-chakrabarti-ipv6-addrselect-api-05.txt
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On 2007-03-13 21:20, Rémi Denis-Courmont wrote:
...
> Did anyone ask for feedback from POSIX people? I think getaddrinfo()
> originally comes from there, right?

The first IETF draft that mentions it is
http://tools.ietf.org/id/draft-ietf-ipngwg-bsd-api-05.txt
which refers to
   [4] IEEE, "Protocol Independent Interfaces", IEEE Std 1003.1g, DRAFT
        6.3.  November 1995.

So yes, but I think it was in effect a joint effort.

     Brian


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