Subject: Comments on Address Selection API draft ?

From: Samita Chakrabarti <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 17 Nov 2003 15:18:27 -0800 (PST)

Hello:

I am reposting this message to solicit working group input on the
address selection API draft, as per request of the chairs.
Please see the changes from last revision as indicated in the attached mail.

We would like to know if folks in the wg think if this draft should
be a working group item ?

Thanks,
-Samita
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A revised version of Address Selection API draft, 
http://www.ietf.org/internet-drafts/draft-chakrabarti-ipv6-addrselect-api-02.txt
has been published recently. At Vienna IETF, the working group
was polled to see if this document should become a WG item -
I understand that more people wanted to read the draft to make a 
final decision.

The following updates have been made as per working group input since then:

* Added comments on JAVA API which might use this draft as a
     guideline. (section 1)
         
* A section on design alternatives of API (section 2)

* The Address selection API draft now addresses specific destination
    address selection as well as source address selection.
    socket option is changed from IPV6_SRC_PREFERENCES to
    IPV6_ADDR_PREFERENCES (section 4)
    
* Introduced new flags for altering rules of default selection
   of destination address scope (section 4 and 5)
   
* Discusses application requirement to support this API draft
    and implementation notes (section 6 and 7)
    
* Discusses the choice of address selection rules from RFC3484 in
  the context of usefulness of this API (section 8)
  
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Please provide comments on this draft to the [email-masked] list
and to the authors (CC'ed).

Since it has been identified in the IPv6 group that a API is
necessary for application specific control of address selection
on a rfc3484 compliant system, the authors like to close
any remaining issues on the list and request the working group 
to take this work as a working group item.

Thanks,
-Samita

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