Will (and should) there be sockets in C++11?

Question

Is the new C++11 going to contain any socket library? So that one could do something std::socket-ish?

Seeing as how std::thread will be added,

Answer 1

There will be no sockets in C++11. The difference between threads and sockets is that threads involves making more guarantees about ordering, if your program involves threads. For a platform with just one core, then C++11 doesn't mandate that your CPU springs an extra core. Sockets, on the other hand, would be... difficult to implement portably and fail gracefully on systems that don't have them.