Re: GSoC 2026: Interest in IPv6 scoped-address support project

From: Hiroki Sato <hrs_at_FreeBSD.org>
Date: Thu, 12 Mar 2026 22:09:05 UTC
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Hi,

Tyler K <always.starving0@gmail.com> wrote
  in <CAG=2jaakAL4kdwfwUBVpDPWhY93vM1U2uiMpez+_zXBBVTvh7A@mail.gmail.com>:

al> Hello,
al>
al> My name is Jinseok and I have been contributing to the Linux Test Project,
al> mainly working on syscall-related tests such as open, fstat, poll, and
al> inotify.
al>
al> I am interested in the project “Add IPv6 scoped-address support in
al> in-kernel ONC RPC and NFS” for GSoC 2026, and I am currently trying to
al> understand how IPv6 addresses are handled in the RPC/NFS code paths.
al>
al> I noticed that the mentor page for this project does not seem to exist yet,
al> so I was wondering whether the project is still active.

It is still alive, and no one has worked on it yet.  You are very
welcome to work on it if you're interested.  Please feel free to
contact me directly if you have any specific questions about the
project.

-- Hiroki

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