Re: [9fans] The IPv6 in Plan9

[pip@namaste.stricca.org]

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Not to be a spoil-sport, but OpenBSD has been shipping with IPv6 
support built-in for the last 2 releases. That said, I think Plan 9
is a much more enjoyable platform for experimentation, both for
prospective adopters of IPv6 and for protocol implementers.
-
pip


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From: Steve Kilbane <steve@whitecrow.demon.co.uk>
To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu
Subject: Re: [9fans] The IPv6 in Plan9
Date: Tue, 01 Aug 2000 08:14:11 +0200
Message-ID: <200008010714.IAA13373@whitecrow.demon.co.uk>

On Mon, Jul 31, 2000 at 11:14:54AM -0400, presotto@plan9.bell-labs.com wrote:
> 
> I started an ipv6 stack and got disgusted.  I decided I'ld wait until there
> was someone worth talking to using it to finish.

i've sometimes wondered whether having an optional IPv6 stack would be a
good way to get further penetration of Plan 9 (or whatever OS you implement
it on): offering the box's functionality as a ready-made IPv6 backbone
system.

To increase the user base, users have to want something that they can't get
elsewhere, and IPv6 is the main example of something that _everyone_ might
want, at some point. Most other wide-scale wants are wishy-washy terms,
like "e-commerce" and "micropayments." (but strangely, not "security")

'Course, the fact that they don't want it _yet_ is telling.

steve