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# USAGI - Linux IPv6 Development Project
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# $USAGI: RELNOTES.USAGI,v 1.7 2002/02/06 01:08:58 takamiya Exp $
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RELEASE NOTES for USAGI kit.
							USAGI Project

IMPLEMENTED FEATURES
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In this release, we have already improved and implemented the following
features,

	- anycast support
	- IPsec (transport mode)
	- ICMPv6 Node Information Queries
	- Privacy Extensions (RFC 3041)
	- IPv6 khttpd
	- better source address selection
	- per-device statistics for SNMP
	- IPv4/IPv6 socket binding on the same port
	- dropping IPv6 packets with malicious address(es)
	- default route when IPv6 forwarding is enabled
	- hacked SO_REUSEADDR behavior
	- bug-fixed NDP(Neighbor Discovery Protocol) support
	- bug-fixed Stateless Address Auto-configuration support
	- RFC2553 / RFC2553bis APIs support including IPV6_V6ONLY
	  socket option
	- RFC2292 / RFC2292bis APIs
	- many basic IPv6-ready applications

For more details of implementation, please refer CHANGELOG.USAGI,
doc/IMPLEMENTATION file and howto files under doc/HOWTO/ directory.
Latest detailed information is available at our web site
<http://www.linux-ipv6.org/>.


MOBLIE IPV6 IMPLEMENTATION
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In honor of HUT Software Project, we have imported/merged MIPL Mobile
IPv6 implementation from their CVS repository on 12/26/2001 into USAGI
CVS repository. MIPL source codes are written and owned by HUT
Software Project. If you want to get information about MIPL, you can
get from their web site, http://www.mipl.mediapoli.com/. 

If you have any questions about MIPL implementation, send it to MIPL
mailing list, mipl@list.mipl.mediapoli.com.


FUTURE PLAN
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As next step, we are now trying to improve and implement the following
features,
	- Catching up RFC2553bis APIs,
	- Improving NDP(NeighbourDiscoveryProtocol) further,
	- Improving extension header functions,
	- Implementing IPv6 multicast routing,
	- Implementing IPsec (tunnel mode),
	- Implementing IPcomp for IPsec,
	- Improving Mobile IPv6
	- Implementing new DNS features (EDNS0, DNSsec),
	- Improving anycast ,
	- Designing and implementing new tunnel device,
	- Designing and implementing translator and
	- Improving policy routing.


NEXT RELEASE
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We will release snapshots per two weeks and make a stable release several
times a year. As for releasing plan of next stable release, we will announce
the date when we release the latest stable release.

Next stable release is planned in spring 2002.


