This is a proof of concept / investigation ticket to gain clarity on the implementation path and estimated time for adding SOCKS5 to the Reactive Streams Driver (JAVA-5205). This ticket must be done before JAVA-5205.

There are currently three async implementations:

• async without SSL
• async with SSL
• Netty

In this ticket, we will need to explore if there is anything available via Netty, and how challenging it would be to add a custom Async TLS implementation. There are concerns over Async TLS as it is vendored code.

The output of this ticket should be a technical decision on how we will implement SOCKS5 in Reactive Streams, and a corresponding estimate in T-shirt size, or weeks.