Question about the future

Brian E Carpenter brian@hursley.ibm.com
Wed, 14 Jun 2000 08:15:32 -0500


At this point, I suggest we close this topic... John is now
talking directly to those of us working on IPv6 questions
inside IBM and that is the best possible outcome.

Input on the market needs for IPv6 is always welcome
of course, but not necessarily on this list.

  Brian

Peter Bunclark wrote:
> 
> On Wed, 14 Jun 2000, Aaron Angel wrote:
> 
> > For the 'record', I'd like to point out he mislead no one.  He stated
> > quite
> > clearly in the first sentect he was a director of delevelopment for one of
> > the TCP/IP stacks for IBM mainframes; he did not say he was directly from
> > IBM.
> >
> > --
> > Aaron Angel <aangel@haknich.ugc.net>
> 
> On the contrary, he mislead many of us by very poor use of language. The
> most misleading part was, he should have asked IBM first before this
> mailing list; the wording implied very strongly, and now we know
> incorrectly, that IBM weren't yet developing IPv6.  And I think we might
> be forgiven for assuming that the `director of development for one of the
> TCP/IP stacks for IBM mainframes' probably did work for IBM.
> 
> Peter.