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        RFC 2292:

        Title:      Advanced Sockets API for IPv6
	Author(s):  W. Stevens, M. Thomas
        Status:     Informational
	Date:       February 1998
        Mailbox:    rstevens@kohala.com,
		    matt.thomas@altavista-software.com
	Pages:      67
        Characters: 152077
        Updates/Obsoletes: None    


        URL:        ftp://ds.internic.net/rfc/rfc2292.txt


Specifications are in progress for changes to the sockets API to
support IP version 6 [RFC-2133].  These changes are for TCP and UDP-
based applications and will support most end-user applications in use
today: Telnet and FTP clients and servers, HTTP clients and servers,
and the like.

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Joyce K. Reynolds and Alegre Ramos
USC/Information Sciences Institute