There hasn't been much talk about a socket library recently. The Wiki stuff about sockets is quite old so I don't know if Hugo is still working on it? It's some time ago I added some proposals for a multiplexing library to the Wiki. So I went through most of the Wiki pages of Boost.Socket and Multiplexing and tried to gather and sort the ideas a bit. As I don't want to go even more into details by adding more C++ code I tried a top-down-approach using UML diagrams. Without sorting the ideas and getting a big picture we are stuck in the details and don't proceed. The network API isn't small, there are many different goals to reach and the network library might overlap with other libraries - quite a lot to do. :-) So here is the next small step: http://www.crystalclearsoftware.com/cgi-bin/boost_wiki/wiki.pl?BoostNet As usual any comments are appreciated, Boris