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From: Steve Kilbane <steve@whi...>
Subject: Re: [9fans] The IPv6 in Plan9 
Date: Tue, 01 Aug 2000 08:14:11 +0200

On Mon, Jul 31, 2000 at 11:14:54AM -0400, presotto@pla... wrote:
> 
> I started an ipv6 stack and got disgusted.  I decided I'ld wait until there
> was someone worth talking to using it to finish.

i've sometimes wondered whether having an optional IPv6 stack would be a
good way to get further penetration of Plan 9 (or whatever OS you implement
it on): offering the box's functionality as a ready-made IPv6 backbone
system.

To increase the user base, users have to want something that they can't get
elsewhere, and IPv6 is the main example of something that _everyone_ might
want, at some point. Most other wide-scale wants are wishy-washy terms,
like "e-commerce" and "micropayments." (but strangely, not "security")

'Course, the fact that they don't want it _yet_ is telling.

steve