System Applications WG: Network Interface API

This is the Wiki page for the Network Interface API draft in the W3C System Applications WG

Use Cases (list of links)

• Enumerating local address(es), used with Raw Sockets API when creating new UDP/TCP socket
  • Binding UDP sockets to a specific network interface, which is required to receive multicast UDP packets
  • Implementing network services which can be discovered by clients using Network Service Discovery

Previous Efforts and Related Specs

• Raw Socket API
• Network Service Discovery (Device APIs WG)
• Network Information API (Device APIs WG)
  • previous version published on 07 June 2011 - an API to detect the interface type (3g, wifi, etc.)
• window.navigator.onLine (in HTML5 spec)