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Re: IPv7 (CLNP) a mistake

Craig Partridge <craig@aland.bbn.com> Fri, 03 July 1992 21:57 UTC

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Subject: Re: IPv7 (CLNP) a mistake
In-Reply-To: Your message of Fri, 03 Jul 92 03:03:02 -0400. <9207030703.AA23454@ginger.lcs.mit.edu>
Reply-To: Craig Partridge <craig@aland.bbn.com>
Date: Fri, 03 Jul 1992 06:53:43 -0700
From: Craig Partridge <craig@aland.bbn.com>


    I, for one, would like to see something related to implementation
    planning for some of the various drafts. ... When can we see
    something ... other than architectural plans?

I think you'll see publicly available implementations of IPAE by early
fall.  A survey of the necessary changes to the BSD code has been done
and with the exception of fixing up the BSD library routines (not to
be confused with the system call interface), the changes are entirely
straightforward, and mostly trivial, and completely invisible to the
user.

Craig

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