Craig Metz
Department of Computer Science
University of Virginia
Charlottesville, VA 22904
cmetz@inner.net
During the course of next-generation IP development, implementors worked to convert protocol-dependent applications into protocol-independent applications. Along the way, they defined new interfaces to fix some problems and they found a number of usage problems that lead to protocol dependencies.
This paper explains many of the problems encountered, using examples from freely available software, and how to solve them. It also explains many of the new protocol-independent interfaces.
This paper was originally published in the
Proceedings of the Freenix 2000 USENIX Annual Technical Conference,
June 18-23, 2000, San Diego, California, USA
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