Allowing applications to evolve with the Internet: The case for Internet Resource Descriptors

摘要: Today's socket API requires an application to bind a network address before it can use the communicate. Early bindings of names addresses create significant bottlenecks, reliability problems, and force applications manage complex lower-layer issues. Many approaches have been introduced this problem; however, all prior proposals introduce additional identifiers, modify applications, or require protocols in protocol stack. In contrast, we propose generalized based on Internet Resource Descriptors (IRDs), which are opaque identifiers used by refer resources known only within hosts run. IRDs enable sockets evolve with hiding mobility, multihoming, multiplexing issues from do not induce overhead stack, preserve backwards compatibility today's networks be