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Re: [tae] The internet architecture

Henning Schulzrinne <hgs@cs.columbia.edu> Fri, 05 December 2008 15:40 UTC

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> Wouldn't it have been nice if the de facto APIs in use today were more
> along the lines of ConnectTo(DNS name, service/port).

This certainly seems to be the way that "modern" APIs are heading. If  
I'm not mistaken, Java, PHP, Perl, Tcl, Python and most other  
scripting languages have a socket-like API that does not expose IP  
addresses, but rather connects directly to DNS names. (In many cases,  
they unify file and socket opening and specify the application  
protocol, to, so that one can do fopen("http://www.ietf.org"), for  
example.) Thus, we're well on our way towards the goal of making  
(some) application oblivious to addresses. I suspect that one reason  
for the popularity of these languages is exactly that programmers  
don't want to bother remembering when to use ntohs().

Henning
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