HPN-SSH question

[Jeremiah Gowdy]

Since it doesn't seem that the HPN-SSH patches are going to be merged upstream to OpenSSH (please correct me if I'm wrong), and since the HPN-SSH project seems to be very low on resources, is the inclusion of these patches in FreeBSD 9 a commitment by FreeBSD to maintain these patches against stock OpenSSH in the future?  Is there any indication that the OpenSSH project will be more willing to consider merging if the patches survive a -STABLE generation in FreeBSD?