From owner-freebsd-current Sun Nov 1 13:21:13 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id NAA07864 for freebsd-current-outgoing; Sun, 1 Nov 1998 13:21:13 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from picnic.mat.net (picnic.mat.net [206.246.122.117]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id NAA07858 for ; Sun, 1 Nov 1998 13:21:11 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from chuckr@mat.net) Received: from localhost (chuckr@localhost) by picnic.mat.net (8.9.1/8.8.5) with ESMTP id QAA02201; Sun, 1 Nov 1998 16:19:57 -0500 (EST) Date: Sun, 1 Nov 1998 16:19:57 -0500 (EST) From: Chuck Robey To: Garrett Wollman cc: John Hay , current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: IPv6 in -current In-Reply-To: <199811011929.OAA05742@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Sun, 1 Nov 1998, Garrett Wollman wrote: > < said: > > > This would serve to give the ideas their best airing, allow the > > developers to present their cases in the lowest possible pressure > > consistent with public disclosure, and probably give the loser at least > > the feeling that they'd certainly been listened to, so their would be > > less likelihood of injured feelings. And, FreeBSD would most likely to > > get the best IPv6 implementation from it. > > I frankly don't care that much which IPv6 implementation is chosen. > My concerns are the following: > > 2) that we don't screw any of the existing developers > > 1) that we make whatever necessary fundamental advances we can in the > network stack before taking on additional deadweight That's true ... however, we need a balance between making sure things are right, and very long delays in getting things to that point. Garrett, you're obviously point man on #1, and we recognize it's a good point. Do you think we're in some sort of condition to wait for the kernel improvements (will some reasonable extra delay give us those fundamental advances, or just extra delay)? Are we talking a month, 3 months, a year, what? Need at least a feeling, I know asking for accuracy is ludicrous. Can't really evaluate the weight of your statement without some feeling about the chances of delay versus the chances of getting the improvements. ----------------------------+----------------------------------------------- Chuck Robey | Interests include any kind of voice or data chuckr@glue.umd.edu | communications topic, C programming, and Unix. 213 Lakeside Drive Apt T-1 | Greenbelt, MD 20770 | I run Journey2 and picnic (FreeBSD-current) (301) 220-2114 | and jaunt (NetBSD). ----------------------------+----------------------------------------------- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message