Re: Why no socket package in the standard ?

["Yannick Duchêne (Hibou57)" <yannick_duchene@yahoo.fr>]

Le Tue, 24 May 2011 09:25:38 +0200, Dmitry A. Kazakov  
<mailbox@dmitry-kazakov.de> a écrit:
> There are many difficulties on that path. When people are demanding  
> sockets
> they forget that beyond TCP/IP and UDP there is a lot of other stuff
> communicated over sockets
This can be abstracted down. The purpose of different protocols is not to  
make things more complex, but to provide different level of reliability,  
which make some like streams and some others not. Unlike Unicode encoding  
introduced in Ada 2012, the protocols list is not closed, however, TCP/IP  
and UDP/IP are still the widely used. This could be compared to the topic  
old character code pages : there was many, but Ada still supported the  
most widely used one beyond pure ANSI : ISO 8859-1. There may be no worry  
to support TCP/IP and UDP/IP above any others, the same way.

A question : what is the state of the use of IP based protocols in the  
embedded-boards area ? I use to see references to TCP and UDP usages in  
some embedded stuffs, but I am not mastering anything in that area… unlike  
many others here.

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