Question about the future

[Dwayne Cann]

Given the lack of addressing space, it is a matter of time, is'nt it?

-----Original Message-----
From: Peter Bunclark [mailto:psb@ast.cam.ac.uk]
Sent: Tuesday, June 13, 2000 4:12 AM
To: JohnRankin@aol.com
Cc: 6bone@ISI.EDU
Subject: Re: Question about the future


Are you expecting IBM Mainframes to be able to communicate to the billions
of next-generation phones, TVs, refrigeraters etc etc that can't possibly
fit into IPv4 address space and which will need IPv6's QOS, encryption,
flow control and so on?

Pete.

On Mon, 12 Jun 2000 JohnRankin@aol.com wrote:

> Hello everyone,
> 
>     I am the director of development for one of the IBM Mainframe TCP/IP 
> stacks.  Up to this point we have not implemented IP version 6, and none
of 
> our customers have even asked us for this support.  I guess, I'm wondering
if 
> this support will still be necessary.  So I thought I would solicit
opinions.
> 
> John Rankin
>