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Date:      Wed, 13 May 1998 23:53:01 -0400 (EDT)
From:      "Matthew N. Dodd" <winter@jurai.net>
To:        Bill Trost <trost@cloud.rain.com>
Cc:        Julian Elischer <julian@whistle.com>, net@FreeBSD.ORG, core@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: INRIA IPv6 on FreeBSD 
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.3.96.980513234934.17033b-100000@sasami.jurai.net>
In-Reply-To: <5110.895097175@cloud.rain.com>

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One might also add that the form in which INRIA is distributed (foo-orig.x
and foo-new.x) is somewhat unfriendly as well.

The fact that INRIA also wants to live in sys/netinet is also a bit
annoying.

I spent some time this evening reading code and my bias at this point is
leaning towards WIDE.

On Wed, 13 May 1998, Bill Trost wrote:
> That brings up an issue in the INRIA-vs-WIDE debate, though.  WIDE
> explicitly states they have partially implemented IPSEC.  As I
> understand it, INRIA cannot provide IPSEC because of French crypto
> controls (which are worse than even the NSA's...er, I mean Commerce
> Department's).  If I am right, then this should be considered a strike
> against INRIA's IP6 -- and a big one, IMHO, as IPsec is more important
> to me than IP6 per se.
> 
> Or, I may be wrong -- at least it's an extrinsic technical criterium we
> can use....  (-:


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