Re: [IPv6] PvD (RFC 8801) is not relevant to MHMP

Michael Richardson <mcr+ietf@sandelman.ca> Thu, 01 December 2022 19:58 UTC

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Subject: Re: [IPv6] PvD (RFC 8801) is not relevant to MHMP
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Ted Lemon <mellon@fugue.com> wrote:
    > If the application is using synchronous getaddrinfo, all is lost. Why
    > would we care to try to fix this case?

Well, it's not all lost since for many applications this is fine, or there
are these "threads", which have become safer and safer lately (particularly
if you use Rust), but... a better API could also be asynchronous.

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