Fellow Boosters, this is an update on my proposal for (the beggining of?) a Boost.Network library, located in the Sandbox. I consider it feature complete for a 1.0 milestone; the features being: *) IOStreams classes, fully buffered *) A listener class *) A wrapper for the name resolution service *) A type to store addresses The missing pieces being: *) Complete the copy constructores and assignment operators of the generic_address class. *) Implement optimized xsputn() and xsgetn() in the stream buffer. *) Implement setbuf() in the stream buffer. *) Documentation (never enough) The above list is what I intend to polish up for a formal proposal. This is the TODO list for a next version: *) Address types specific for IPv4 and IPv6, with input operators. *) A formatter output operator for generic address types based on the name resolution service. *) Resolver options and manipulators for the above output operator. *) Code conversion in the stream buffer. *) A poller class. *) Wrapper for sendfile/TransmitFile. *) Implement showmanyc() and perhaps putbackfail() in the stream buffer. With a proper poller class I believe most people's desires for non-blocking operation would be satisfied. I'm going out of town on vacations for some days, so things are going to stall for a while. I hope to complete all tasks soon after Boost 1.33 is released and a new review cycle starts. -- Pedro Lamarão