[1] ILNP is backwards-compatible with existing Internet Protocol functions, and is incrementally deployable.
University of St Andrews (Scotland) has a prototype in Linux/x86 and FreeBSD/x86, while Tsinghua U.
The University of St Andrews ILNP group is led by Prof. Saleem Bhatti.
Other academics involved in continuing research include Ryo Yanagida, Samuel J. Ivey and Gregor Haywood.
In February 2011, the IRTF Routing Research Group (RRG) Chairs recommended that the IETF standardise ILNP (RFC 6115) as the preferred evolutionary direction for IPv6.