Socket API Extensions for IPv6

• Sockets Interface

  • The de-facto standard Application Programming Interface (API) for TCP/IP applications
  • developed for Unix in the early 1980s, also been implemented on a wide variety of non-Unix systems
  • TCP/IP applications written using the sockets API have in the past enjoyed a high degree of portability

• For similar portability with IPv6 applications

  • RFC3493 (Basic Socket Interface Extensions for IPv6)
  • RFC3542 (Advanced Socket API for IPv6)

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