[Info-vax] Still no IPSEC for TCP/IP services?

[Dirk Munk]

I'm planning to set up a couple of new OpenVMS systems, and I was 
thinking of using IPSEC as well. I was amazed to find that IPSEC is not 
included in the present version of TCP/IP services. It was included in 
the Early Adopters Kit for TCP/IP services 5.7 in 2007 (!!!!), but it 
never made it to the final version and wasn't added later on.

As far as I know IPSEC is a mandatory part of IPv6, so the IPv6 stack of 
TCP/IP services isn't complete either. It may well be that there is more 
modern functionality missing in the IPv6 stack

Does any one know what happened, why was HP not capable of producing a 
full functional IPSEC stack in 5 years time? Even Windows Vista has 
IPSEC........