Networking Library in C++14

Question

Herb Sutter writes here (on his ISO C++ Spring 2013 meeting trip report) that a networking library is planned to be added to C++14.

What features would this library have initially? What is it based on? Is there a proof-of-concept implementation? My Google-fu must be seriously lacking, because I can't even find the proposal draft.

There are a series of blog posts on http://meetingcpp.com/ listing the proposals for C++14: part 1, part 2, part 3 and part 4. Among all these, I can only find two network-related proposals:

• N3555 - a URI Library for C++ (sorry, no link; though its predecessor is N3507.)
• N3603 - A Three-Class IP Address proposal (with a related earlier paper N3565 - IP Address Design Constraints.)

Is this all? Will the C++ network library have only these facilities? I don't even know whether these passed the vote or not, as Michael Wong's two part review of the same meeting (Bristol, April 2013) doesn't even mention them.

Answer 1

a networking library is planned to be added to C++14.

A networking library (or set of library components) will appear as a separate Technical Specification, not as part of C++14.

I can only find two network-related proposals

The blog posts don't list all the proposals in the mailings, just the ones someone has found time to write up, there are others such as:

http://www.open-std.org/jtc1/sc22/wg21/docs/papers/2012/n3360.pdf
http://www.open-std.org/jtc1/sc22/wg21/docs/papers/2012/n3374.htm
http://www.open-std.org/jtc1/sc22/wg21/docs/papers/2012/n3388.pdf
http://www.open-std.org/jtc1/sc22/wg21/docs/papers/2012/n3389.pdf
http://www.open-std.org/jtc1/sc22/wg21/docs/papers/2013/n3565.pdf
http://www.open-std.org/jtc1/sc22/wg21/docs/papers/2013/n3620.pdf

What will be part of the TS isn't decided yet AFAIK.