Distributed configuration of "private" IDNA (Re: IDNA and getnameinfo() and getaddrinfo())
Dave Thaler
dthaler at microsoft.com
Thu Jun 17 23:42:45 CEST 2010
Nico writes:
> > Ned Freed pointed out in that context, if you really want this to be
> > transparent to the application, the relevant interface is some flavor
> > of "SetupConnectionByName" with which the application starts with an
> > opaque name and then, subject to some parameters or function-name
> > variations, ends up with a connection. Sadly, taking away the need
> > for expert knowledge of the DNS alone really doesn't help a lot.
>
> Exactly! Ned's "SetupConnectionByName" is an example of "better APIs".
As Stuart mentioned in the IPv6 panel plenary, such apis already exist on both
Windows and MacOS.
-Dave
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