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IPng BSD Host Implementation Analysis



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Network Working Group                                           J. Bound
Request for Comments: 1682                 Digital Equipment Corporation
Category: Informational                                      August 1994


                 IPng BSD Host Implementation Analysis

Status of this Memo

   This memo provides information for the Internet community.  This memo
   does not specify an Internet standard of any kind.  Distribution of
   this memo is unlimited.

Abstract

   This document was submitted to the IETF IPng area in response to RFC
   1550.  Publication of this document does not imply acceptance by the
   IPng area of any ideas expressed within.  Comments should be
   submitted to the  mailing list.

Overview

   This IPng white paper, IPng BSD Host Implementation Analysis,
   was submitted to the IPng Directorate to provide a BSD host point of
   reference to assist with the engineering considerations during the
   IETF process to select an IPng proposal.  The University of
   California Berkeley Software Distribution (BSD) TCP/IP (4.3 + 4.4)
   system implementation on a host is used as a point of reference for
   the paper.

   This document only reflects the author's personal analysis based on
   research and implementation experience for IPng, and does not
   represent any product or future product from any host vendor.  Nor
   should it be construed that it is promoting any specific IPng at this
   time.

Acknowledgments

   The author would like to acknowledge the many host implementation
   discussions and inherent knowledge gained from discussions with the
   following persons within Digital over the past year: Peter Grehan,
   Eric Rosen, Dave Oran, Jeff Mogul, Bill Duane, Tony Lauck, Bill Hawe,
   Jesse Walker, John Dustin, Alex Conta, and Fred Glover.  The author
   would also like to acknowledge like discussions from outside his
   company with Bob Hinden (SUN), Bob Gilligan (SUN), Dave Crocker
   (SGI), Dave Piscitello (Core Competence), Tracy Mallory (3Comm), Rob
   Ullmann (Lotus), Greg Minshall (Novell), J Allard (Microsoft), Ramesh
   Govinden (Bellcore), Sue Thompson (Bellcore), John Curran (NEARnet),



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