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      3 NetBSD Networking Roadmap
      4 =========================
      5 
      6 This is a small roadmap document, and deals with the networking
      7 side of the operating system.
      8 
      9 NetBSD 5.0 will ship with the following networking elements in
     10 place:
     11 
     12 1. Mobile IPv6
     13 
     14 The following elements and projects are pencilled in for 5.0, but
     15 please do not rely on them being there.
     16 
     17 2. SCTP
     18 3. network driver polling
     19 
     20 The following projects are expected to be included in NetBSD 6.0
     21 
     22 4. ALTQ processing on input
     23 5. integrated multicast dns / zeroconf
     24 6. tcp support in libsa
     25 7. netboot from http
     26 
     27 We expect to branch for the 5.0 release in April or May 2008, which would
     28 put a NetBSD 5.0 Release date in Q4 2008. An annual release cycle would
     29 thus mean that 6.0 would be branched in April or May 2009.
     30 
     31 Pictorially, 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 
     42 We'll continue to update this roadmap as features and dates get firmed up.
     43 
     44 
     45 Some explanations
     46 =================
     47 
     48 2. SCTP
     49 -------
     50 
     51 Add support for the SCTP for both IPv4 and IPv6.
     52 
     53 3. network driver polling
     54 -------------------------
     55 
     56 Responsible: matt
     57 
     58 4. ALTQ processing for input
     59 ----------------------------
     60 
     61 Responsible: matt
     62 
     63 5. multicast DNS / zeroconf
     64 ---------------------------
     65 
     66 Add support for multicast DNS (name.local)
     67 
     68 Responsible: ???
     69 
     70 6. tcp support in libsa
     71 -----------------------
     72 
     73 Add a tiny tcp implementation to libsa.
     74 
     75 Responsible: matt
     76 
     77 7. http netbooting
     78 ------------------
     79 
     80 Be able to use a HTTP server hosting a kernel and/or disk image as a
     81 read-only root device.
     82 
     83 Responsible: ???
     84 
     85 Matt Thomas
     86 Wed Feb 27 22:45:26 UTC 2008
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