From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Message-ID: <200008011937.PAA11057@thunderer.cnchost.com> To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu Subject: Re: [9fans] The IPv6 in Plan9 FROM: pip@namaste.stricca.org Date: Tue, 1 Aug 2000 19:42:10 -0400 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/mixed; boundary="upas-cxbvixsbspepjbausknufnrhse" Topicbox-Message-UUID: f0ece6d8-eac8-11e9-9e20-41e7f4b1d025 This is a multi-part message in MIME format. --upas-cxbvixsbspepjbausknufnrhse Content-Disposition: inline Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit 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 --upas-cxbvixsbspepjbausknufnrhse Content-Type: message/rfc822 Content-Disposition: inline Return-Path: Received: from cse.psu.edu (claven.cse.psu.edu [130.203.3.50]) by invincible.cnchost.com id PAA05952; Tue, 1 Aug 2000 15:24:30 -0400 (EDT) [ConcentricHost SMTP MX 1.15] Errors-To: Received: from localhost (majordom@localhost) by cse.psu.edu (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id PAA00659; Tue, 1 Aug 2000 15:23:51 -0400 (EDT) Received: by claven.cse.psu.edu (bulk_mailer v1.5); Tue, 1 Aug 2000 15:23:48 -0400 Received: (from majordom@localhost) by cse.psu.edu (8.8.8/8.8.8) id PAA00636 for 9fans-outgoing; Tue, 1 Aug 2000 15:23:43 -0400 (EDT) X-Authentication-Warning: claven.cse.psu.edu: majordom set sender to owner-9fans using -f Received: from whitecrow.demon.co.uk (root@whitecrow.demon.co.uk [194.222.126.246]) by cse.psu.edu (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id PAA00628 for <9fans@cse.psu.edu>; Tue, 1 Aug 2000 15:23:37 -0400 (EDT) Received: from whitecrow.demon.co.uk (steve@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by whitecrow.demon.co.uk (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id IAA13373 for <9fans@cse.psu.edu>; Tue, 1 Aug 2000 08:14:12 +0100 Message-Id: <200008010714.IAA13373@whitecrow.demon.co.uk> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.0zeta 7/24/97 To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu Subject: Re: [9fans] The IPv6 in Plan9 In-reply-to: Your message of "Tue, 01 Aug 2000 06:18:43 +0200." <20000801061843.E2173@cackle.proxima.alt.za> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Tue, 01 Aug 2000 08:14:11 +0200 From: Steve Kilbane Sender: owner-9fans@cse.psu.edu Reply-To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu Precedence: bulk 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 --upas-cxbvixsbspepjbausknufnrhse--