Transport Layer Interface

It was originally expected that the OSI protocols would supersede TCP/IP, thus TLI is designed from an OSI model-oriented viewpoint, corresponding to the OSI transport layer. Otherwise, TLI looks similar, API-wise, to sockets.

TLI and XTI were widely used (?) and, up to UNIX 98, may have been preferred over the POSIX Sockets API{{Cite book

|author=X/Open Group

|title=Networking Services (XNS) Issue 5.2

|edition=5.2

|date=January 2000

|publisher=The Open Group

|location=Berkshire, U.K.

|series=CAE Specification

}} with respect to existing standards. However, it was clear at least since the early 1990s that the Berkeley Socket interface would ultimately prevail.{{cite web |author=Andrew L. Russell |date=30 July 2013 |title=OSI: The Internet That Wasn't |work=IEEE Spectrum |url=https://spectrum.ieee.org/osi-the-internet-that-wasnt |access-date=2021-01-10}} TLI and XTI are still supported in SVR4-derived operating systems and operating systems conforming to branded UNIX (UNIX 95, UNIX 98 and UNIX 03 Single UNIX Specifications) such as Solaris and AIX (as well as the classic Mac OS, in the form of Open Transport). Under UNIX 95 (XPG4) and UNIX 98 (XPG5.2), XTI was the preferred and recommended supported API for new transport protocols.{{Cite book

|author=X/Open Group

|title=Networking Services (XNS) Issue 5

|edition=5th

|date=February 1997

|publisher=The Open Group

|location=Berkshire, U.K.

|series=CAE Specification

|isbn=1-85912-165-9

}} As a result of deliberations by the Austin Group with the goal of bringing flavors of UNIX that do not provide STREAMS, such as BSD and Linux, under the Single UNIX Specification, the UNIX 03 Single UNIX Specification both declares STREAMS as optional, and declares POSIX Sockets as the preferred API for new transport protocols.

• X/Open Transport Interface, formally standardized successor to TLI.
• X/Open Portability Guide, the predecessor to POSIX
• Computer networking, outlining the major networking protocols

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• [http://www.opengroup.org/bookstore/catalog/c523.htm The Open Group's XTI standard]
• [http://gim.org.pl/uczelnia/PSI/7.XTI_TLI/ Example client-server application working on Solaris and Linux]

Category:Application programming interfaces