Mark Wielaard wrote:
:
Thanks. On irc I was pointed to "CCC" review board which currently is
"under construction": http://openjdk.java.net/guide/reviewBodies.html
and not planned to be made public till 2008/Q2. Would it be possible to
publish a summary whenever such a CCC has occurred to the
announce/discuss list till then? Just something simple like "The CCC
received a request from X for public interface change Y with as
justification Z. The CCC process ended in an Approval/Disapproval for
the following reason...". Then at least these kind of changes don't just
have a commit without any public discussion.
This seems a reasonable suggestion to me. I don't know the priority of
this compared to other infrastructure work but sending notifications to
a public mailing list might be a good start.
:
Aha. OK. I might be dense, but I don't think I am the only person not
immediately making the link between these methods and the RFC 2133
"Interface Identification" and how they are used as described in RFC
2292 for selecting the outgoing interface. So a pointer to this in the
documentation might be helpful. Also an small code example how to
actually use these interface identifiers would help make the interface
more clear. So I assume the Index returned can be used as an Scope
identifier when creating a Inet6Address. In that case it would be good
to mention that in the documentation also. And maybe even change the
method name (if not too late) to getScopeIndex() or something a bit more
descriptive.
I agree that the new methods and the section in Inet6Address that
defines scoped addresses should reference each other. This is something
I suggested to Jessie a few months ago but it didn't make it into these
changes.
I'm not sure about the suggested method name though. The zone index, or
scope id as it is known in the Inet6Address spec, might be something
that isn't an interface index. This means the integer that identifies
the interface might not always correspond to the zone index (Michael,
Jessie, correct me if I've got this wrong).
-Alan.
