[ih] A revolution in Internet point-of-view - Was Re: Internet analyses (Was Re: IPv8...)

[Brian E Carpenter]

On 02-May-26 07:23, Jack Haverty via Internet-history wrote:

> I've wondered what effect "connectors" have on the users' and ISPs' 
> experience in The Internet and how it's changed over time.

Well, a very crucial set of software connectors is the socket API, which is pretty much universal and derived from a single source (the Windows version is a bit different but not very).

One of the most important connectors is getaddrinfo() which as far as I am concerned has a major pin missing that wrecks most attempts to solve the multihoming problem. Details are probably out of scope, but it's an accident of history for sure.

https://github.com/becarpenter/getapr/blob/main/README.md

    Brian