From owner-freebsd-hackers Mon Feb 25 2: 4:13 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from pantalamion.dme.org (host217-37-28-201.in-addr.btopenworld.com [217.37.28.201]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 029DD37B400 for ; Mon, 25 Feb 2002 02:04:11 -0800 (PST) Received: from de128083 by pantalamion.dme.org with local (Exim 3.34 #1) id 16fHxv-0005zf-00 for ; Mon, 25 Feb 2002 10:02:39 +0000 To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: ICSC Socket API Extensions working group From: David Edmondson Date: Mon, 25 Feb 2002 10:02:39 +0000 Message-ID: Lines: 39 User-Agent: Gnus/5.090006 (Oort Gnus v0.06) Emacs/21.1 (sun-sparc-solaris2.10) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG [ Apologies if you receive multiple copies of this. ] The Interconnect Software Consortium (http://www.opengroup.org/icsc/) has recently formed a working group to look at extensions to the standard socket API. The charter for the working group is defined: The Sockets API Extensions Working Group will specify additions to the standard UNIX (Berkeley) Sockets API that improve the efficiency of network programming. The interfaces will be defined for user-space subsystems and will facilitate protocols such as SDP that bypass the TCP/IP software stack. The interfaces may additionally be adapted for kernel-space subsystems. The primary goal is to preserve the large existing base of sockets applications, enabling portability where reasonable, while providing a natural evolution to more efficient transport protocols in an industry-standard manner. It is expected that these extensions will be incorporated in the Single Unix Specification. The working group is looking for participation from groups outside of those currently involved (most of the current members are commercial Unix operating system vendors). For example: - members of the open source community who would be interested in specifying and implementing the API extensions, - ISVs who have an interest in specifying and later using the API extensions. If you know of any people or groups which would fit the above, please either direct them to the ICSC web pages or myself, or if you prefer you could pass their names to me and I will make contact. Participation in the working group requires membership of the Consortium, which in turn requires completion of the membership agreement (see http://www.opengroup.org/icsc). Questions about the consortium would probably best be addressed to the consortium administrator (icsc-admin@opengroup.org). If you have any other questions, please ask. dme. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message