Question about the future

[Jochen Friedrich]

Hi Peter,

On Tue, 13 Jun 2000, Peter Bunclark wrote:

> 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?

I believe, problems will start with a more widespread use of TCP/IP
instead of SNA on mainframes. With Enterprise extender replacing the old
SNI networks, more and more companies will have to connect their internal
networks with TCP/IP and use NAT and DNS translations (which has other
impacts like the need to rewrite layer 7 information in some cases).

> 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.

Strange... I know at least one client (a german bank) who did ask...

Cheers,
Jochen