Question about the future

[Derek J. Balling]

Are there 3rd party stacks for IBM 'frames?

Nowhere does he claim to be from IBM, so it could as easily be a 3rd-party 
vendor...

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At 10:21 AM 6/13/00 -0500, Brian E Carpenter wrote:
>The attached message was apparently NOT sent by anyone from IBM -
>in fact we have no idea who sent it - it does not in any way represent
>IBM's views. As a matter of fact IBM has already made an IPv6 download
>available for IBM mainframes, and we released IPv6 for the AIX operating
>system in 1997. So please ignore the message and the alleged sender.
>
>Regards
>
>- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
>Brian E Carpenter
>Program Director, Internet Standards & Technology, IBM
>On assignment for IBM at http://www.iCAIR.org
>Attend INET 2000: http://www.isoc.org/inet2000
>Non-IBM email: brian@icair.org
>
>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