unified-ipv6 issues

Jun-ichiro itojun Hagino, KAME project

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There has been unified-ipv6 project underway, since winter 1998 (IIRC). This project aims to make a "take the best part" IPv6 implementation from NRL, INRIA and KAME implementation. This was needed because if we have 3 IPv6 implementations and 4 *BSD operating systems we will get 12 different IPv6-ready operating systems, which is a huge mess and it raises big portability problem.

After half year of struggle on manpower and design issues (apparently 3 IPv6 code are based on very different designs), the situation changed a bit.

NRL decided to concentrate onto IPsec.
INRIA will be doing their researches on top of KAME code.
KAME will be adding necessary knobs to support INRIA's experiment.

So, KAME will be producing KAME snapshots, and we label it as "unified-ipv6" snapshot. This will happen when KAME supports OpenBSD and BSDI4 (expected to happen in September).

We hope to ship unified-ipv6 kit (basically KAME kit), and merge code to *BSD platforms sooner.