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On Wed, 4 Apr 2018, Dave Taht wrote:

> How dead is posix these days? Ietf does not generally do apis well.

POSIX nowadays is

http://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/

My take on it is that the IETF should not be scared to do APIs, even 
though there is a lot of resistance still.

However, the IETF should not do POSIX APIs, but instead something of their 
own.

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Mikael Abrahamsson    email: swmike@swm.pp.se