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

[Steven Underwood]

"Dirk Munk"  wrote in message 
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>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........

Dirk:  The EAK is still the only version of IPSEC as far as I have heard. 
There are very few people (one other, really) asking for it.  Your arguments 
mirror his.

I personally have no use for IPSEC or IPv6 on VMS or not.  That also seems 
to be the general consensus I seen here toward IPv6 and IPSEC on VMS.

Steven Underwood