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Networking Improvements
Our existing networking library was written long ago and many things can be done better today.
The existing network code is written with the BSD sockets API in mind. The POSIX sockets API introduces some improvements, particularly with handling IPv4 vs IPv6 addresses.
We should move to support the POSIX APIs, remove the usages of the BSD APIs such as inet_aton, gethostbyname and friends, and switch to using the POSIX equivalents.
It would be nice to present a platform independent binding of the POSIX socket APIs for use directly without having to use the stream-oriented APIs that we currently have.
Once we're using the POSIX APIs, we should make sure that we have solid coverage of IPv6 support, including a sensible set of classes for handling Internet addresses.
Some work has already been done on this here: https://github.com/dylan-foundry/posix-sockets