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Re: [hackathon] Open Source Software and network protocol standards

Bob Hinden <bob.hinden@gmail.com> Sat, 19 March 2022 20:39 UTC

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From: Bob Hinden <bob.hinden@gmail.com>
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Date: Sat, 19 Mar 2022 13:39:47 -0700
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Subject: Re: [hackathon] Open Source Software and network protocol standards
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Stuart,

> On Mar 18, 2022, at 4:47 PM, Stuart Cheshire <cheshire=40apple.com@dmarc.ietf.org> wrote:
> 
> Can you think of cases where an Open Source Software implementation clearly helped a networking protocol become successful? Was that Open Source implementation driven by the people (or companies) actively working on the protocol standard? Or was it created by an independent community following the standards development process?
> 

The Kame project as part of the WIDE project developed open source projects for IPv6, IPsec, and Mobile IPv6 for BSD variants.  See:

https://www.kame.net

These were used as the basis of many IPv6 implementations.

Bob

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