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Question about the future



IBM has some of the best experts in-house on this subject!!!!!!!

Ask Brian, copied above!

/Latif


At 09:12 13/06/00 +0100, 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?
>
>Pete.
>
>On Mon, 12 Jun 2000 [email protected] 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
> >