> that an engineer needs to be forced to set while creating a socket Because there aren't enough steps in setting up sockets! Haha. I suspect that what would

> that an engineer needs to be forced to set while creating a socket Because there aren't enough steps in setting up sockets! Haha. I suspect that what would happen is that many of the programming language run-times in the world which have easier-to-use socket abstractions would pick a default and hide it from the programmer, so as not to expose an extra step.