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A Brief History of the lksctp ProjectThe LKSCTP project was started by Randall Stewart, coinventor of SCTP. He put together a small group of developers at Motorola led by La Monte H.P. Yarroll (aka Piggy). The primary goal of the project was to provide a Linux kernel reference implementation of SCTP. Since the implementation was targeted at the Linux Kernel, it was open source under the GNU GPL (General Public License) from the beginning. The first release, sctp-kref-2.4.0-test10-0.0.0, was made in January 2001 for developers.In March 2001, Piggy presented LKSCTP in the first Linux Kernel Summit for possible inclusion in Linux 2.5. It was well-recieved and made it into the official list of possible features for 2.5. In the middle of year 2001, the project migrated to SourceForge to take advantage of the services and the resources SourceForge provides to Open Source projects. Since then, many developers from different companies and different parts of the world have joined and contributed to the lksctp project.
In December 2001 at the 52nd IETF meeting, Piggy turned over maintenance
of the project to Jon Grimm, who ran the project until June 2003. Jon passed
on the maintainer role to Sridhar Samudrala in July 2003 after the 6th SCTP
Interop event.
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