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1$NetBSD: networking,v 1.5.2.2 2008/03/23 00:23:07 matt 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
533. network driver polling
54-------------------------
55
56Responsible: matt
57
584. ALTQ processing for input
59----------------------------
60
61Responsible: matt
62
635. multicast DNS / zeroconf
64---------------------------
65
66Add support for multicast DNS (name.local)
67
68Responsible: ???
69
706. tcp support in libsa
71-----------------------
72
73Add a tiny tcp implementation to libsa.
74
75Responsible: matt
76
777. http netbooting
78------------------
79
80Be able to use a HTTP server hosting a kernel and/or disk image as a
81read-only root device.
82
83Responsible: ???
84
85Matt Thomas
86Wed Feb 27 22:45:26 UTC 2008
87