Date: Fri, 4 Apr 1997 23:29:13 +1000 (EST) From: proff@suburbia.net To: abial@korin.warman.org.pl (Andrzej Bialecki) Cc: hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: IPv6 && -current Message-ID: <19970404132914.7676.qmail@suburbia.net> In-Reply-To: <Pine.NEB.3.95.970404140638.13063C-100000@korin.warman.org.pl> from Andrzej Bialecki at "Apr 4, 97 02:10:58 pm"
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> On Thu, 3 Apr 1997, Garrett Wollman wrote: > > > <<On Thu, 3 Apr 1997 16:06:41 +0200 (MET DST), Andrzej Bialecki <abial@korin.warman.org.pl> said: > > in doing an IPv6 implementation that obeys style(9) and isn't > > altogether bletcherous), there should not be IPv6 code in the -current > > kernel. Thats right. We can choose to have freeBSD the leader in the next generation of network code, or we can choose style(9). The linux ipv6 stack has already undergone a year of development, and is now substantially complete. I doubt FreeBSD will have a ipv6 stack inside the next three years if slavish adherence to style-guides is considered the over-riding factor. An ipv6 stack is a mechanism of considerable complexity not the work of fools. Now is the time for people to put their hands up to perform the difficult task of writing the stack internally, if they can do better, or shut up and adapt the existing work of others. Cheers, Julian.
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