Question about the future

[Derek J. Balling]

You see, I totally disagree. I saw the phrase "one of the TCP/IP stacks" 
and instantly said "A-Ha! Competitive market for stacks!"

I don't think there was any "unclear-ness" in his statement at all. Maybe 
some people are just so accustomed to "only one vendor available to support 
your OS" that they forget about competitive portions of the industry. =)

D


At 09:53 AM 6/14/00 -0400, Dwayne  Cann wrote:
>His choice of language was poor. I too believed he worked for IBM, and was
>suprised because I knew that IBM supports IPV6 on AIX. His question is valid
>though. How long before we see widescale implemetation of IPV6? My isp is
>not yet prepared for it.
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>Dwayne
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>-----Original Message-----
>From: Peter Bunclark [mailto:psb@ast.cam.ac.uk]
>Sent: Wednesday, June 14, 2000 5:05 AM
>To: Aaron Angel
>Cc: Latif LADID; 6bone@ISI.EDU
>Subject: Re: Question about the future
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>On Wed, 14 Jun 2000, Aaron Angel wrote:
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> > 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.
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> > --
> > Aaron Angel <aangel@haknich.ugc.net>
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>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.