[Haskell] Re: Existing Haskell IPv6 Code

[Tony Finch]

On Thu, 12 May 2005, Marcin 'Qrczak' Kowalczyk wrote:
>
> But they don't differ in addressing. In BSD sockets the difference
> between streams and packets lies in "socket type", while addresses
> are split into "address families" which bijectively correspond to
> "protocol families".

I believe there are some obscure protocol families that have more than one
address family, which is why the two concepts exist in the API. However
there's an enormous amount of code that muddles them up, but this doesn't
matter for the Internet protocols.

Tony.
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