The only limit to our support of IPv6 is the amount of support that is/will be given under java. The Freenet node certainly supposed to be completely agnostic to such matters.
Not everyone has been 100% consistent about this, but I have been cleaning it up (removing imports of java.net.* from any class that is not an executable or particularly tcp related). There is nothing inconceivable about a Freenet system where nodes use modems to dial one another rather then the Internet. It would be a lot slower, it should still work. On Sat, 06 May 2000, Lucky Green wrote: > 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 -- Oskar Sandberg md98-osa at nada.kth.se #!/bin/perl -sp0777i<X+d*lMLa^*lN%0]dsXx++lMlN/dsM0<j]dsj $/=unpack('H*',$_);$_=`echo 16dio\U$k"SK$/SM$n\EsN0p[lN*1 lK[d2%Sa2/d0$^Ixp"|dc`;s/\W//g;$_=pack('H*',/((..)*)$/) _______________________________________________ Freenet-dev mailing list Freenet-dev at lists.sourceforge.net http://lists.sourceforge.net/mailman/listinfo/freenet-dev
