The KAME Project is a IPv6 Host Support Implementation.  It is a cooperative effort to provide a free IPv6 and IPsec stack for BSD variants to the world that was originally a 2-year project, but it has been extended twice.  The main concern for this project is to implement and maintain the best networking code possible for IPv6 under BSD copyright.  The problem with IPv6 is that they don’t presently have single shared reference code for networking.  Even if they choose to merge into one IPv6 stack, the code is still likely to be different on each project tree.  This is why the KAME Project has been developed.

Basic IPv6 items are functional and working stable for a very long period of time, since 1997.  Their set goal to implement features for Apr 2002 - Mar 2003 has been accomplished.  The goal for Apr 2003 - Mar 2004 is to obtain feedback on their results to each BSD project.

The release plan for KAME kit is the SNAP release which is a weekly snapshot release of KAME kernel/software applications and protocols. It is recommended for advanced networking researchers/hackers who can cope with unstable code.  For other users, official releases from *BSD projects can be installed such as :