I am not sure if Java supports IPv6. If it does, coding with IPv6 in mind certainly won't hurt.
[Pondering what I can say without violating several NDA's]. Sun has included IPv6 support in Solaris 8. Microsoft just moved their IPv6 stack from research status to production track. Future releases of Microsoft's operating systems as well as Win2k Service Packs will include an IPv6 stack. At least on MSFT's end, this is in part driven by envisioned uses of Microsoft operating systems on non-PC devices. There are other vendors of certain devices that will need static IP in the many tens of millions per vendor within the next two years. Now you certainly could ask IANA for some 80 million addresses, but while you are waiting for the men in white coats to take you away to a quiet place in the countryside, you probably will come to the realization that the chance of you getting that address space is null. I am aware of one major communications player that every subscriber to this list is familiar with and many probably use every day that recently requested 32 *billion* IP addresses. They need those addresses, little doubt about it. But those addresses can't possibly come from IPv4 address space. Vint Cerf of MCI/Worldcom/Sprint/UUnet visited Cisco's CTO a couple of months ago to tell her that his companies needed IPv6 support in everything. While gently reminding her that MCI/Worldcom/Sprnit/UUnet was buying an awful lot of expensive hardware from Cisco. The message was received loud and clear. Cisco will support IPv6 in production versions of IOS starting Q3/Q4. Anything geared towards the mass market and global penetration would do well to code with IPv6 in mind. I am not sure if Freenet falls into this category. IPv6 support may well be of limited relevance to Freenet. --Lucky Green <shamrock at cypherpunks.to> "Among the many misdeeds of British rule in India, history will look upon the Act depriving a whole nation of arms as the blackest." - Mohandas K. Gandhi, An Autobiography, pg 446 http://www.citizensofamerica.org/missing.ram > -----Original Message----- > From: freenet-dev-admin at lists.sourceforge.net > [mailto:freenet-dev-admin at lists.sourceforge.net]On Behalf Of Daniel > Phillips > Sent: Friday, May 05, 2000 19:00 > To: freenet-dev at lists.sourceforge.net > Subject: [Freenet-dev] What about IPv6 > > > Has anyone considered the value of explicitly supporting ipv6 in > freenet? This > is just an aha and I haven't really thought it through yet, but > suppose every > freenet server were to be ipv6 aware was able to make intelligent > deductions about about whether a full IPv6 route exists between > any two servers > or not. When the IPv6 route is there we have a ready-made vehicle for > superiour, government-sanctioned encryption. Even when the complete > route is not there it's still possible to tunnel . > > Better yet, it's my understanding that some assertions about realtime > performance can be made, and that opens a whole world of possiblities from > games to music. > > Like I said, it's just an aha, and my apologies if this has already been > discussed. > > -- > Daniel > > _______________________________________________ > Freenet-dev mailing list > Freenet-dev at lists.sourceforge.net > http://lists.sourceforge.net/mailman/listinfo/freenet-dev > _______________________________________________ Freenet-dev mailing list Freenet-dev at lists.sourceforge.net http://lists.sourceforge.net/mailman/listinfo/freenet-dev
