>>>>> On Thu, 9 Jan 2003 22:08:53 -0500,
>>>>> "Bound, Jim" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:
> Well that's cool. There is industry funding potentially to build an
> international bsd base for IPv6. One of the reasons I have asked those
> who want to do it not to is because of KAME. So a few of us anyway (I
> think more than a few) were under the impression that KAME was the BSD
> base IP for IPv6 work.
This is probably a matter of wording definition, but you can say that
"KAME is the BSD base IP for IPv6 work" in the sense that
- the KAME project has developed (and is developing) a set of patches
to BSD's original source code to support IPv6.
- the KAME project has contributed the patch to the BSD community.
- the BSD community has reviewed the patch and has merged to their own
repository.
However, the KAME project does not have a direct control on the BSD
repository. There is of course a subtle point because some of the
KAME developers have a write access to the BSD repository. So, in
some cases (or even often) the person who merges the KAME patch to the
BSD repository is also a KAME member, but the point is that we cannot
do the merge without consensus and approval by the BSD community where
the KAME project cannot control.
So, anyone can build an "international bsd base for IPv6" and try to
ask the BSD community to replace the KAME base with the new one. The
BSD community will review the offer. If the new one is better than
KAME, they'll migrate. Otherwise, they'll still live with KAME.
I hope this message makes the point clear.
JINMEI, Tatuya
Communication Platform Lab.
Corporate R&D Center, Toshiba Corp.
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