From owner-freebsd-net@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Jun 23 06:05:02 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-net@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 418F316A4CE for ; Wed, 23 Jun 2004 06:05:02 +0000 (GMT) Received: from outbound0.sv.meer.net (outbound0.sv.meer.net [205.217.152.13]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2BCCE43D55 for ; Wed, 23 Jun 2004 06:05:00 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from gnn@neville-neil.com) Received: from mail.meer.net (mail.meer.net [209.157.152.14]) by outbound0.sv.meer.net (8.12.10/8.12.6) with ESMTP id i5N64HGO054579 for ; Tue, 22 Jun 2004 23:04:17 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from gnn@neville-neil.com) Received: from minion.local.neville-neil.com (pc1.oakwoodazabu1-unet.ocn.ne.jp [220.110.140.201]) by mail.meer.net (8.12.1/8.12.2/meer) with ESMTP id i5N648Tm080012 for ; Tue, 22 Jun 2004 23:04:09 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from gnn@neville-neil.com) Date: Wed, 23 Jun 2004 15:04:05 +0900 Message-ID: From: "George V. Neville-Neil" To: freebsd-net@freebsd.org User-Agent: Wanderlust/2.10.1 (Watching The Wheels) SEMI/1.14.5 (Awara-Onsen) FLIM/1.14.5 (Demachiyanagi) APEL/10.5 Emacs/21.2 (powerpc-apple-darwin) MULE/5.0 (SAKAKI) MIME-Version: 1.0 (generated by SEMI 1.14.5 - "Awara-Onsen") Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Subject: Re: kern/68110 (rfc 3522) X-BeenThere: freebsd-net@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Networking and TCP/IP with FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 23 Jun 2004 06:05:02 -0000 Andre Oppermann said: > Jon Noack wrote: > > > > Has anyone looked at kern/68110? > > http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=kern/68110 > The situation is a little bit complicated. I agree that having RFC3522 > is a good thing. > However there is a political problem with the author of the rfc3522 of > DFBSD. He is also still a FreeBSD committer, but for political reasons > he has very much refrained from doing any FreeBSD work for about a year > now. About six or seven month ago I had a port of rfc3522 ready in my > tree and wanted to commit it. He vetoed me and said he would do it by > himself. Yet for those political reasons he wont do any work on FreeBSD > including this. The only way to solve this is that either someone simply > committs it (this is BSD licensed code after all) and pisses him off, or > someone convinces him to do it himself (which I don't think he will). > Deadlock... I believe that this deadlock can be broken, if you still have code/patch for this, by your proposing of that patch. I'm sure a single committer will not block new work going forward. I'll review what you've got, at the very least. Let's get this in there. Later, George