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diff --git a/Socket/SocketPolicy.hh b/Socket/SocketPolicy.hh
index cb83e11..859686e 100644
--- a/Socket/SocketPolicy.hh
+++ b/Socket/SocketPolicy.hh
@@ -254,8 +254,6 @@
 
 // Custom includes
 
-#include "GenericSockAddr.hh"
-
 //#include "SocketPolicy.mpp"
 ///////////////////////////////hh.p////////////////////////////////////////
 
@@ -309,7 +307,7 @@ namespace senf {
     {
         virtual ~AddressingPolicyBase() {}
 
-        typedef GenericSockAddr Address;
+        class Address { Address(); };
     };
 
     /** \brief Policy defining the framing format
@@ -334,13 +332,12 @@ namespace senf {
         <table class="senf">
         <tr><td>method</td> <td><tt>void listen(FileHandle, unsigned backlog)</tt></td> <td>Switch socket into listening state</td></tr>
         <tr><td>method</td> <td><tt>int accept(FileHandle, Address &)</tt></td>         <td>Accept a new connection</td></tr>
+        <tr><td>method</td> <td><tt>int accept(FileHandle)</tt></td>                    <td>Accept a new connection</td></tr>
         </table>
 
         The \c listen member is straight forward. The \c accept() member must return a new file
         descriptor (which will be used to create a new SocketHandle of the correct
-        type). Additionally, accept() should only be defined, if the Addressing policy is not \c
-        NoAddressingPolicy (which together with ConnectedCommunicationPolicy would identify a
-        point-to-point link with fixed communication partners).
+        type). 
 
         \note This Policy only has two meaningful states: ConnectedCommunicationPolicy and
         UnconnectedCommunicationPolicy. It is probably not sensible to define a new
@@ -508,10 +505,15 @@ namespace senf {
     {
         /** \brief Check dynamic policy compatibility
 
-            This method will check the socket policy \a other against this policy. It will check,
-            whether \a other is a base policy (or the same) of this policy. This check is done
-            against the \e dynamic type of \a other using RTTI. It will throw \c std::bad_cast, if
-            the policy is not compatible.
+            This check will validate, that a socket with \a other as it's policy is convertible to a
+            socket with the current SocketPolicy as it's policy. This is true, if for each policy
+            axis, the policy class of that axis as defined in the \a other policy is convertible to
+            the policy class of that same axis in the current SocketPolicy instance (as is defined
+            by the template arguments). This again is true, if the \a other policy class is derived
+            from (or is the same as) the policy class taken from the current SocketPolicy instance.
+
+            In other words, this call checks, that the current SocketPolicy (as defined via the
+            template arguments) is more generic than the \a other socket policy.
 
             \param[in] other SocketPolicy to check
             \throws std::bad_cast if \a other is not a compatible policy