From: clubley@remove_me.eisner.decus.org-Earth.UFP   
      
   On 2025-10-10, Dan Cross  wrote:   
   > In article <10c89re$2n78q$1@dont-email.me>,   
   > Simon Clubley   wrote:   
   >>On 2025-10-08, Arne Vajhøj  wrote:   
   >>> VSI has published final agenda:   
   >>>      https://events.vmssoftware.com/bootcamp-2025/agenda   
   >>>   
   >>   
   >>That's a very interesting range of topics. It's starting to feel   
   >>like the old DECUS conferences of yesteryear.   
   >>   
   >>One thing of special interest is that the rewrite of the TCP/IP stack   
   >>is back on the WIP list. This was tried in the past by VSI and then   
   >>dropped. Interesting that the FreeBSD stack was chosen as the starting   
   >>point for this.   
   >   
   > I'm curious as to your thoughts on the FreeBSD stack.  My sense   
   > is that it is one of the better implementations out there, and   
   > has had a ton of work done on it (including recently).  It also   
   > has a permissive license that makes it suitable for integration   
   > into a proprietary system like VMS.   
   >   
      
   That's exactly my point. It's an excellent starting point for   
   a VMS-specific TCP/IP stack.   
      
   It's vastly better than the original UCX disaster area and looks to   
   be far better than whatever they used for the UCX 5 (TCP/IP Services)   
   rewrite.   
      
   Simon.   
      
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