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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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