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Date: Mon,  3 May 2010 12:19:25 +0900
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From: Ryousei Takano <ryousei@gmail.com>
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Hi David,

On Sunday, May 2, 2010, David du Colombier <0intro@gmail.com> wrote:
>> Please tell me why IL is removed from the main distribution.
>
> From the Fourth Edition Release Notes [1] :
>
> "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)"
>
> [1] http://plan9.bell-labs.com/sys/doc/release4.html
>

Thanks for your quick response.
Does it mean IL has performance issue on long-distance networks?

Thanks,
Ryousei