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From: Julian Elischer <julian@whistle.com>
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To: Pierre Beyssac <pb@fasterix.freenix.org>
cc: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@time.cdrom.com>,
        Ollivier Robert <roberto@keltia.freenix.fr>, core@FreeBSD.ORG,
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Subject: Re: INRIA IPv6 on FreeBSD
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> 
> Obviously, having a single implementation to choose from would make
> FreeBSD's choice easier, but that's not gonna happen unless WE
> (FreeBSD) decide to work on it for our own purposes. _BUT_ I honestly
> think that reinventing yet a new wheel is a complete waste of time
> except for people pursuing religious concerns such as "BSD network
> code sucks so I write my own, cleaner code so I can mess up with
> socket semantics and ICMP includes" (this is a purely theoretical
> example, obviously :-)
> 
> In conclusion, anyway, the ball is in OUR camp and unless we realize
> that, we're gonna be late for the IPv6 boat.

I think we should start by getting both groups to talk with each other and
work out a set of INCLUDE files that we can include that will work for
both.
That at least settles the interface. This is largely defined 
by RFCs anyhow so they SHOULD be able to agree with that.
then we can pick and choose from the utilities.

Inria:
Francis.Dupont@inria.fr, ipv6-bsd-core@imag.fr,

There is the dassault IPV6 group..
(no idea what they have)
contacts:
Pierre.Cathelin@dassault-elec.fr, Eric.Carmes@dassault-elec.fr, 

WIDE:From: 
<itojun@itojun.org>
 (there must be a better mailing list to get to these people)

NRL: (did have a freebsd version at one stage I think)
<not sure if they still exist>

IPSILON (now Nokia):
FreeBSD based IPv6 Router.. they may have something to contribute.
(Robert Hinden from there was the co-chair of the IPng Working group
for IETF)



should we get these peopl,e into a mailing list somewhere?
can we make a short-term IPV6 mailng list for FreBSD integration that they
can all be subscribed to (if they wish)


julian



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