All things related to multicast

[John Zwiebel <>]

On May 13, 2004, at 2:17 PM, Bill Owens wrote:

> On Thu, May 13, 2004 at 01:24:09PM -0700, Andrew Swan wrote:
> > this was discussed recently on the freebsd-net mailing list.
> > the kame folks are unwilling to commit igmpv3 and mldv2 back
> > in to freebsd until the apple intellectual property issues
> > have been resolved...
>
> Gotta love those software patents. I just sent a note to the ipv6 list 
> at Apple, asking whether there might be a way to move this along since 
> they're effectively at both ends of the chain (their OS won't get the 
> feature until their lawyers let other people have it).
>
> Bill.

Lacking any political power to do anything, I
went here and asked why Apple was delaying IGMPv3 and MLDv2.

http://www.apple.com/macosx/feedback/


And/Or you can go here and respond to my questions, and maybe
come up with better answers.
http://discussions.info.apple.com/WebX?@.689338ba

thanks