This document is informative, not normative. It represents the opinions of those listed as authors and reviewers. It is an informative document that represents the opinion of the authors. Other applications can define their own strings that appear in other fields.
Most modern networks provide support to transmit IP packets.
See Figure 2 for a SW layer diagram. Some systems use a different local interface IP address for each different stream carrying IP data to help keep datagrams separate but this is a platform implementation decision not specified here. Other specific values for some fields of the descriptor are described below. No compatibility issues are expected by this transparent handling. Other applications can define their own strings that appear in other fields.