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Title : IPv6 Socket API for source address selection
Author(s) : E. Nordmark
Filename : draft-chakrabarti-ipv6-addrselect-api-02.txt
Pages : 22
Date : 2003-10-27
The IPv6 default address selection document describes the rules for
selecting default source address by the system and indicates that the
applications should be able to reverse the sense of system preference
of source address selection for that application through possible API
extensions. However, no such socket API exists in the basic or
advanced IPv6 socket API documents. Hence this document specifies
socket level options to prefer a particular source address as per
choice of the applications. It also discusses implications on the
name-to-address translation API that performs part of the default
address selection. The socket APIs described in this document will
be particularly useful for Mobile IPv6 enabled applications and other
IPv6 applications which want to choose between temporary and public
addresses, CGA (cryptographically generated addresses) and non-CGA
addresses etc..
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