Creating an active socket
The TCP/IP standard tells us nothing about sockets. Moreover, it tells us almost nothing about how to implement the TCP or UDP protocol software API through which this software functionality can be consumed by the application.
If we look at section 3.8, Interface, of the RFC document #793 which describes the TCP protocol, we'll find out that it contains only functional requirements of a minimal set of functions that the TCP protocol software API must provide. A developer of the protocol software is given full control over all other aspects of the API, such as the structure of the API, names of the functions comprising the API, the object model, the abstractions involved, additional auxiliary functions, and so on. Every ...
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