From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: gerrit@erg.abdn.ac.uk Date: Fri, 08 Sep 2006 10:49:14 +0000 Subject: Re: Proposed socket API change Message-Id: <200609081149.14383@strip-the-willow> List-Id: References: <200609081031.41701@strip-the-willow> In-Reply-To: <200609081031.41701@strip-the-willow> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: dccp@vger.kernel.org | > In a forthcoming communication to SIGCOMM-06, the inventors of DCCP say that | > they were "motivated by keeping the basic API as simple as UDP's" and that | > "DCCP should provide applications with an API as simple as that of UDP". | | I think the same authors killed me on this point. I believe their motivation is | "we want service codes to be used" and that they are a useful thing. I agree | with them, but I don't agree on "forcing the users to use service codes". I have the same idea; the proposal is an attempt to make the API simple without contradicting the spec. UDP also does not contradict its spec and yet is simple to program; if the same can be done with DCCP, that would be great. Thanks for mentioning dccp@ietf.org, have copied message there. If there are no strong objections, will send patch on Monday. - Gerrit