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Date: Tue, 29 Aug 2006 10:05:04 -0700
From: Skip Tavakkolian <9nut@9netics.com>
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yes. in 2002 rob said:

	* We are phasing out the IL protocol since it doesn't handle 
	long-distance connections well (and long-distance networks 
	don't handle it well, either).  IL is still used by fs(4)
	(in time, that too will change) but TCP has become the stan-
	dard protocol for all other services.

http://tinyurl.com/o2lry

> IL works great in a local network.  I would guess that the change in
> 9P to better support a stream protocol like TCP was to get better
> performance to system over the Internet.  One would tcp to a cpu
> server serving 9P2000 which was IL'ing the fs.