IP Addresses Considered Harmful
A long while ago I wrote about the brokenness of socket API and lack of session layer in TCP/IP stack. Looks like I’m not the only one with heretic opinions; Fred Baker reached similar conclusions in his Happier Eyeballs draft and Brian Carpenter recently published a long article title IP Addresses Considered Harmful which documents (among other things) the history of socket API and the reasons DNS isn’t tightly integrated with it. Both documents are definitely worth reading.
On the other hand, if you love listening to old rants, here’s a video I recorded more than 3 years ago (part of the Upcoming Internet Challenges webinar). The truly sad part: nothing changed in the meantime.