Foreword
Back in 1994, when the IETF accepted the proposal that is known as IPv6 today, I was convinced from that moment, such a new fundamental protocol would be difficult if not impossible to be accepted, adopted and deployed by the networking community without a high-quality open-source reference implementation that is freely available.
This conviction stems from my close involvement with the original TCP/IPv4 protocols and UC Berkeley’s BSD implementation of these protocols. I have seen first-hand how the BSD implementation has made enormous contribution to the success of TCP/IPv4, commonly known as the Internet protocols. We needed a new effort that played the same role for IPv6.
It was our turn to make a contribution to the world of the ...
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