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Date:      Tue, 14 Oct 1997 19:38:36 +0300 (EEST)
From:      Petri Helenius <pete@sms.fi>
To:        Garrett Wollman <wollman@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu>
Cc:        freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: IPv6 sources w/out export restriction
Message-ID:  <199710141638.TAA22353@silver.sms.fi>
In-Reply-To: <199710141559.LAA13260@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu>
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Garrett Wollman writes:

 > There's the DARTNET one based on the NRL code (which is radically
 > restructured every week or so I'm told, making it difficult to keep a
 > stable code base).  There's the one from WIDE in Japan.  I've talked
 > with people who know of others, but I can't be more specific.
 > 
 > IPv6 right now is a research vehicle.  It will not be production
 > technology for some years.  It would be very, very premature to
 > incorporate any one implementation into our source tree at this time.
 > 
I've always thought that in addition of being a wonderful production
platform the *BSD platforms are also research vechiles but it seems
that the code is missing some modularity Linux has since they have a
"beta V6 addon" which fits onto various releases of the OS.

Pete



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