1$NetBSD: networking,v 1.8 2009/09/26 05:36:22 tsarna Exp $ 2 3NetBSD Networking Roadmap 4========================= 5 6This is a small roadmap document, and deals with the networking 7side of the operating system. 8 9The following projects are expected to be included in NetBSD 6.0 10 111. Mobile IPv6 122. SCTP 133. network driver polling 144. ALTQ processing on input 155. integrated multicast dns / zeroconf 166. tcp support in libsa 177. netboot from http 18 19We currently expect to branch 6.0 in the March 2010 timeframe, with a view 20to a 6.0 release later in 2010. 21 22We'll continue to update this roadmap as features and dates get firmed up. 23 24 25Some explanations 26================= 27 282. SCTP 29------- 30 31Add support for the SCTP for both IPv4 and IPv6. 32 333. network driver polling 34------------------------- 35 36Responsible: matt 37 384. ALTQ processing for input 39---------------------------- 40 41Responsible: matt 42 435. multicast DNS / zeroconf 44--------------------------- 45 46Add support for multicast DNS (name.local) 47 48Responsible: tsarna 49 506. tcp support in libsa 51----------------------- 52 53Add a tiny tcp implementation to libsa. 54 55Responsible: matt 56 577. http netbooting 58------------------ 59 60Be able to use a HTTP server hosting a kernel and/or disk image as a 61read-only root device. 62 63Responsible: ??? 64 65Matt Thomas 66Alistair Crooks 67Sun 25 Jan 2009 21:06:42 PST 68