From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: David Miller Subject: Re: [PATCH 00/05] ipv6: RFC4214 Support Date: Tue, 06 Nov 2007 21:37:50 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <20071106.213750.91637349.davem@davemloft.net> References: <20071106.203845.10865897.davem@davemloft.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: Fred.L.Templin@boeing.com, netdev@vger.kernel.org, netdev-owner@vger.kernel.org To: dlstevens@us.ibm.com Return-path: Received: from 74-93-104-97-Washington.hfc.comcastbusiness.net ([74.93.104.97]:56546 "EHLO sunset.davemloft.net" rhost-flags-OK-FAIL-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750745AbXKGFhv (ORCPT ); Wed, 7 Nov 2007 00:37:51 -0500 In-Reply-To: Sender: netdev-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: netdev.vger.kernel.org From: David Stevens Date: Tue, 6 Nov 2007 21:26:15 -0800 > Last I heard, there are Intellectual Property claims with ISATAP, > which is why the RFC is not standards track and which makes it > effectively a proprietary protocol. > > Unless that's been resolved, I think the claim by the IP owner is > that it can't be distributed without a license from them. So, maybe > not worth the effort for an experimental RFC. If this is the case, I agree, we cannot include ISATAP support in the kernel.