Question about the future

[Brown, James]

Another question to ask is:

"Do you wish the IBM mainframe to be able 
to communicate with Microsoft IPv6 platforms,
Cisco, 3Com, Bay, Lucent, [insert favorite vendor here]
networks in the 1-10 year future?"

These URLs will help get you started...

www.ipv6forum.org
www.stardust.com
www.6bone.net

jpb
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-----Original Message-----
From: Peter Bunclark
To: JohnRankin@aol.com
Cc: 6bone@ISI.EDU
Sent: 6/13/00 4:12 AM
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
>