Subject: Re: RFC2292 -> RFC3542
To: Jason Thorpe <thorpej@wasabisystems.com>
From: None <itojun@iijlab.net>
List: tech-net
Date: 06/03/2003 13:46:59
>> IPv6 advanced socket API was revised (RFC2292 -> 3542). there's no
>> backward source compatilibility at all. i'll work on migration
>> to RFC3542.
>> - binary backward compatibility will be provided (i.e. old compiled
>> binary using RFC2292 should work).
>> - source code compatibility to RFC2292 will NOT be provided
>> - coming source code must use RFC3542, not 2292
>
>Have any other standards organizations published documents based on
>RFC2292? If so, it would probably make sense to keep the old API
>around, as well.
we can't keep both of them, as they use the same #define symbols
(with different behavior). dunno if any other standards documents
(like POSIX) has copy of RFC2292/3542 in them.
itojun