Date: Thu, 29 Apr 2004 14:12:02 +0900 From: SUZUKI Shinsuke <suz@kame.net> To: aswan@cs.berkeley.edu Cc: suz@crl.hitachi.co.jp Subject: Re: IGMPv3 (was Re: pim6sd) Message-ID: <x7r7u7cqql.wl%suz@crl.hitachi.co.jp> In-Reply-To: <20040428204952.GA5701@cs.berkeley.edu> References: <BAY14-F38tTuDenY1fl0002fc3a@hotmail.com> <20040428172529.GC38871@empiric.dek.spc.org> <20040428204952.GA5701@cs.berkeley.edu>
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>>>>> On Wed, 28 Apr 2004 13:49:52 -0700 >>>>> aswan@cs.berkeley.edu(Andrew Swan) said: > as of last fall, kame was waiting for the igmpv3 sockets api to > be published as an rfc (it was an internet-draft at the time) to > merge igmpv3 into the core bsd distributions. > (see http://www.kame.net/roadmap-2003.html). > > in january, the api draft was published as rfc 3678. what is > the process by which code is merged from kame to freebsd? is > it just a matter of somebody extracting the appropriate patches > and submitting them? I know MSF API has been published as an RFC, but I have to wait until the IPR issue raised by Apple has been closed, because Apple requires some fee for SSM-related implementations, which is against BSD-license. http://www.ietf.org/ietf/IPR/APPLE-SSM.txt I'm not sure if this IPR is really valid or this IPR is applicable to IGMPv3/MLDv2, but I think it's dangerous to MFC IGMPv3/MLDv2 without any clarification. As far as I know some Apple engineers have been aware of the issue, but I don't know if Apple's legal staffs know it. I really hope that this issue has been peacefully solved...
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