"Neil J. McRae" <neil@domino.org>  wrote:
 > On 28 Apr 1996 10:37:44 GMT 
 >  hwr@pilhuhn.de (Heiko W.Rupp) wrote:
 > 
 > > Francis Dupont @ inria (in France) developped his implementation on 
 > > NetBSD/Sparc - now he is running it on FreeBSD. Half a year ago in mails
 > > he said that porting that to i386 is mostly a matter of implementing some
 > > changes in ethernetcard drivers.
 > 
 > We should get this in the tree and start tracking the changes now.

Conversations I had with Francis back then were along the lines of:

"PS: if IPv6 become a successful standard and my implementation
far more stable I'll reconsider your proposal. Today it is just too soon.

I got the distinct impression that his implementation was experimental only
and he expected another code platform to become the defacto implementation.

Of course, I'm not one to put words into anyones mouth and fully expect 
Francis to supercede these comments.