Re: [openss7] IETF Draft questions

["Brian F. G. Bidulock" <bidulock@openss7.org>]

Chuck,

<ranting>

I don't subscribe to Randall Stewart's view of the socket world.

Also, the IETF is not responsible for the sockets interface.
If you want some good examples of how the sockets interface
applies to a wide range of protocols, see the XPG 5.2/XNS at

    http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/009619199

(You will have to register to take a look...)

You can also reference the pertinent POSIX documents available
at ieee.org (and pay money), but the XPG 5.2/XNS was the basis
for POSIX.

The OpenGroup and IEEE documents are standards.  They were
balloted and passed by companies who write operating systems.
The IETF socket's draft is merely informational and more
reflects the view of the authors than anything else.

</ranting>

--Brian

Chuck Winters wrote:                                          Mon, 30 Jul 2001 15:19:57
> 	In the IETF draft for the BSD sockets interface for SCTP, they make it sound like
> the UDP style syntax and the TCP style syntax create different types of sockets.  What
> is the difference between the two.  The protocol is still the same though.  You still
> have a connection oriented protocol.
> 
> Chuck
> 
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