on jun7, BSD BoF was held as one of the night sessions at
	NetWorld+Interop Tokyo.  this is a short summary of the discussion.
	thank you for all of those attended and presented.

	most of the URLs are in japanese... sorry for that.

itojun


About the event itself
	The event is subtitled "BSD, Life with Revolution Evolution DEVOlution"
	(the title was taken from a song title for a Japanese cult rock band).
	We have been doing this kind of events a couple of times.

	NetWorld+Interop have provided us the meeting room as a courtesy.
	We would like to thank them here. 

	300+ people attended in person (there were fewer chairs than the number
	of people - so some of them had to sit on the floor).
	50-100 people attended over irc (volunteers type the discussions to
	a couple of irc channels), and some have watched the discussion
	over RealVideo transmission.

	To summarize the event in 4 words, it was A LOT OF FUN.

	http://www.jp.FreeBSD.org/event/N+I2001_BOF/
	http://www.jp.FreeBSD.org/event/N+I2001_BOF/program.html

Mr. Mano of root-hq.com, on wireless internet devices
	The company manufactures an embedded NetBSD device, with 802.11 and
	ethernet device built in, as the last one-mile internet reachability
	solution.  The specification of the device is as follows:
		Hitachi SH3 CPU, 167MHz, ROM: 32+1M, RAM: 32M
		10Base-T, RS232C, RS422, RTC, PCMCIA slot for a 802.11 card
		NetBSD 1.4.2, zebra ripd, apache

	He also started a company very recently, called "mobile internet
	solutions".  The company aims to deliver internet reachability
	everywhere by the wireless technologies, and promote (non-PC)
	ubiquitous internet environment.
	http://www.root-hq.com/jp/html/pressrelease/01.6.5.html

	The answer to "why NetBSD?" was "pure luck".  Someone recommended
	NetBSD by chance (if the recommendation was different, he could have
	picked Linux or other *BSD).  Luckily for us NetBSDers, he is happy
	with his choice.

	He also announced a scolarship possibility, for those presented their
	ideas for the usage of root-hq.com wireless devices.

	ToDo: IPv6, mobile-ip4/6, OSPF, PDA/cellphone-like handset device
	(rather than an infrastructure device).

	http://www.root-hq.com/

Shigeru Yamamoto of IIJ, on SEIL-T1
	SEIL-T1 is a small router device for small offices and such.
	IIJ is actually an ISP, and it is rare for ISP to manufacture routers.
	IIJ has router-integrated services, like router maintenance outsourcing
	and such.  Also it should be noted that IIJ is highly active in IPv6
	arena.  This is the first ISP to launch official IPv6 connectivity
	service in Japan.

	Specs: SH3, NetBSD 1.4 + KAME (next version of the firmware will be
	1.5.1), T1 and 10Base-T.  32M RAM, 4M flash memory.
	web and telnet config interface (next version of the firmware comes
	with Secure Shell logins, and all config interfaces are IPv6
	accessible).  IPv6, IPsec including IKE, traffic shaping, monitoring
	(MRTG-ish stat tool inside).

	Good things about using NetBSD: the availability of source code, 
	multi architecture (and cleanness because of this), UNIX programming
	environment for user interface portion.

	Troubles: compiler bugs (-O2 sometimes emit non-working code),
	alignment pickiness of SH3, debugging environment (DDB sometimes does
	not work right).

	The development team pays very large amount of effort on user interface.
	Web interface is for novice admins, and telnet/ssh interface is for
	advanced admins.  Even for telnet/ssh interface, SEIL-T1 does not
	use normal /bin/sh or /bin/csh - it has home-brew command line user
	interface (with cisco-ish ondemand help).  It is critical to present
	a consistent user interface to the admins.

	An attendee suggested to use Hitachi-made commercial compiler,
	which should be more stable than gcc.

	http://www.seil-t1.com/
	http://www.iij.ad.jp/

Jun Ebihara on Hitachi GR2k router
	With hidden command he demonstrated that it runs BSD/OS 3.1 :)

Mr.Etoh on gcc mod for buffer overrun attack detection/protection
	http://www.trl.ibm.com/projects/security/ssp

	With his mods, binaries compiled with gcc -stack-protection becomse
	safer against buffer overrun attacks.  The techinique includes
	reordering of auto variables, checks against signature variable after
	function call, and some other items.  The modification is made against
	gcc intermediate code, so it should be easier to be arch independent.

	His notebook PC runs FreeBSD compiled with the modified gcc.  It
	requires modification to gcc (of course), 6-line changes to the kernel,
	and 16-line changes to shared library.  The compilation was very
	simple - just a matter of "make World".

	He have tested his mod on i386, sparc and powerpc.  He solicited
	more testes.  Also, he suggested to compile FreeBSD packages
	(precompiled third-party application binary) by safer compiler like
	this, to protect many users.

Mr.Shiroyama on MacOS X
	He presented the internals of MacOS X, and demonstrated its GUI.
	To quote Steve Jobs "MacOS X will be the most popular UNIX
	distribution".  From the market statistics it seems true.
	MacOS X/Darwin seems to include KAME IPv6 stack (which is one of the
	contributions from Japan to BSD community), but is not enabled yet.

	Apple is taking a very aggressive approach in switching their
	operating system from a legacy non-protected one to modern ones
	(compare it with M$, which is having very hard time switching from
	Win95/98 to Win2K/XP).  This may be because this is very critical for
	Apple to transition (if they fail to switch, the company may vanish).

	The audience laughed so hard when Mr. Shiroyama demonstrated
	"port scan" menu on the network management dialog:-)

Ms.Kurata from WindRiver
	She clarified the goals/plans of WIndRiver on BSD,
	after the BSDi merger.

Mr.Imai on XCAST
	XCAST is short for "explicit multicast", an experimental multicast-ish
	protocol discussed in IETF.  It is designed for millions multicast
	groups with small number of people/group (like a million mahjong net
	game with 4 participants each).  With normal internet multicast,
	the multicast routing table management on routers would be cumbersome,
	There are patches against NetBSD 1.5, FreeBSD (2.2.8+KAME, 3.5+KAME
	and 4.3), and he called for more geeks to play with it.

	Btw, he presented this over IPv6 video chat application (of course with
	XCAST), from UC Irvine!

	http://www.ics.uci.edu/~yimai/MDO6/kit/

Mr.Takeoka on "Shikigami" avator
	Shikigami is an user interaction avator for the "shikigami" PDA user
	interface suite (or, to literally describe, cute girl AI on X11 screen).
	Backend AI/controller is implemented with scheme (a popular dialect
	of Lisp), and the graphical frontend is implemented with Xlib.

	Functionalities include (still growing): wink, clock/alarm, fork
	external command, URL passing to netscape, biff (checks # of queued
	email over pop3).  ToDos include: real AI, scheduler, voice i/f.

	He solicited more illustrators (to draw cute "skins") and voice
	actressess.

Mr.Kakei of ASCII, on meeting room usage
	ASCII is a major computer publisher in Japan, and is known to be an
	advocator of BSDs and UNIXes.  He announced that the company can let
	people use ASCII meeting rooms, for free software activities
	(like this BoF).  ASCII is located in Shibuya-ku, near Shinjuku and
	Hatsudai station (central tokyo).  Detailed descriptions were given,
	like no commercial activity (selling T-shirt for non profit purpuse
	would be okay), network available, equipments in room, one ASCII
	employee must attend, how guards would audit attendees, and such.
	Contact kahei-s@ascii.co.jp.

Random announcements
	jun9 - open source convention at Nagoya U
	http://www.nu-net.or.jp/tosc/2001/

	jun25-30 - usenix/freenix 2001

	jun30 - Japan NetBSD users group meeting at ASCII meeting room

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