On Sunday, June 1, 2003, at 11:33  PM, Jun-ichiro itojun Hagino wrote:

> 	IPv6 advanced socket API was revised (RFC2292 -> 3542).  there's no
> 	backward source compatilibility at all.  i'll work on migration
> 	to RFC3542.
> 	- binary backward compatibility will be provided (i.e.  old compiled
> 	  binary using RFC2292 should work).
> 	- source code compatibility to RFC2292 will NOT be provided
> 	- coming source code must use RFC3542, not 2292

Have any other standards organizations published documents based on 
RFC2292?  If so, it would probably make sense to keep the old API 
around, as well.

         -- Jason R. Thorpe <thorpej@wasabisystems.com>