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Why is this being proposed to the IETF? It's not an issue visible at the wire protocol level. It doesn't affect interoperability. Sockets belong to the POSIX spec, and to some extent to language specs.

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There are already other RFCs regarding the socket API, such as RFC3493 (IPv6 socket API).

There even are RFCs (RFC 2783 comes to mind) that specify OS-level APIs that are only tangentialy related to networking.

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