6DEPLOY - IPv6 Deployment and Support

30th, March 2005: Ten years ago ...

Wednesday, March 30, 2005 - :57 PM

Topic: 6DEPLOY
Posted by: Jordi

Ten years ago with the very first communications between two independent implementations, IPv6 became reality!

References:

RFC 3160 "The Tao of IETF", section 7 "How to Contribute to the IETF -- What You Can Do", about the importance of "running code" for IETF,
the log of a communication between:
- ottawa, using the "INRIA" IPv6 stack (written by Francis Dupont, today at Point6) on NetBSD;
- sipper, using the IPv6 stack of OSF/1 (developed by a Digital team lead by Jim Bound, today "HP Fellow" and IPv6 Forum CTO).

Complete information at Point6.

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