From owner-freebsd-hackers Fri Jul 23 8:34: 9 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from zippy.cdrom.com (zippy.cdrom.com [204.216.27.228]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2632414E73 for ; Fri, 23 Jul 1999 08:34:06 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jkh@zippy.cdrom.com) Received: from zippy.cdrom.com (jkh@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by zippy.cdrom.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id IAA71666; Fri, 23 Jul 1999 08:33:53 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jkh@zippy.cdrom.com) To: itojun@iijlab.net Cc: Jeroen Ruigrok/Asmodai , hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Will FreeBSD ever see native IPv6 ?? In-reply-to: Your message of "Fri, 23 Jul 1999 19:01:41 +0900." <9128.932724101@coconut.itojun.org> Date: Fri, 23 Jul 1999 08:33:53 -0700 Message-ID: <71662.932744033@zippy.cdrom.com> From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > FreeBSD can wait till unified-ipv6 is made available, since: > - IPv6 is not that urgent task and > - it will be messy if FreeBSD integrates KAME first, > then switch to unified-ipv6. Both of these remain true. I certainly see and understand the "marketing value" of having an early IPv6 implementation, but I don't see this as mainstream interest so much as interest on the part of various researchers and early-adopters, all of which can go to the KAME site and grab the patches to 3.2-stable if they want to play now, today. If we haven't done a good enough job of making that clear and are suffering from defections to other *BSDs because of this, then we just need to get the word out better. :-) It's not like nothing is available at all, simply not "officially" and officially we have an obligation to pick the best, most technically correct route, something which I believe we have already done. Two merges sounds like a nightmare, and we're not suffering from NetBSD's release constraints here. :) > - We need some more FreeBSD commit privs for other KAME guys. > (this is a easy part) Yes, this is certainly the easy part. As always, just let us know if there's anything we can do. - Jordan To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message