networking revision 1.4
1$NetBSD: networking,v 1.4 2008/03/20 22:55:01 agc Exp $ 2 3NetBSD Networking Roadmap 4========================= 5 6This is a small roadmap document, and deals with the networking 7side of the operating system. 8 9NetBSD 5.0 will ship with the following networking elements in 10place: 11 121. Mobile IPv6 13 14The following elements and projects are pencilled in for 5.0, but 15please do not rely on them being there. 16 172. SCTP 183. network driver polling 19 20The following projects are expected to be included in NetBSD 6.0 21 224. ALTQ processing on input 235. integrated multicast dns / zeroconf 246. tcp support in libsa 257. netboot from http 26 27We expect to branch for the 5.0 release in April or May 2008, which would 28put a NetBSD 5.0 Release date in Q4 2008. An annual release cycle would 29thus mean that 6.0 would be branched in April or May 2009. 30 31Pictorially, this looks like: 32 33 2008 2009 34 Feb Mar Apr May Jun Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun Jul Aug 35|===|===|===|===|===|===|===|===|===|===|===|===|===|===|===|===|===|===|===| 36 37 | ------- 5.0 --------- | | ------- 6.0 38 branch release branch 39 40 1-3 4,5 6 7 8 41 42We'll continue to update this roadmap as features and dates get firmed up. 43 44 45Some explanations 46================= 47 482. SCTP 49------- 50 51Add support for the SCTP for both IPv4 and IPv6. 52 53Responsible: jmcneill 54 553. network driver polling 56------------------------- 57 58Responsible: matt 59 604. ALTQ processing for input 61---------------------------- 62 63Responsible: matt 64 655. multicast DNS / zeroconf 66--------------------------- 67 68Add support for multicast DNS (name.local) 69 70Responsible: ??? 71 726. tcp support in libsa 73----------------------- 74 75Add a tiny tcp implementation to libsa. 76 77Responsible: matt 78 797. http netbooting 80------------------ 81 82Be able to use a HTTP server hosting a kernel and/or disk image as a 83read-only root device. 84 85Responsible: ??? 86 87Matt Thomas 88Wed Feb 27 22:45:26 UTC 2008 89