An Abstract Application Layer Interface to Transport Services
Brian Trammell, Theresa Enghardt, Philipp S. Tiesel, Colin S. Perkins, Michael Welzl, Tommy Pauly, Christopher Wood, Gorry Fairhurst · 2020
This document describes an abstract programming interface to the transport layer, following the Transport Services Architecture. It supports the asynchronous, atomic transmission of messages over transport protocols and network paths dynamically selected at runtime. It is intended to replace the traditional BSD sockets API as the lowest common denominator interface to the transport layer, in an environment where endpoints have multiple interfaces and potential transport protocols to select from.