Date: Wed, 24 Apr 1996 20:31:20 -0500 From: Jim Fleming <JimFleming@unety.net> To: "'Warner Losh'" <imp@village.org>, Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@critter.tfs.com> Cc: "'chat@FreeBSD.org'" <chat@FreeBSD.org>, "current@FreeBSD.ORG" <current@FreeBSD.org>, Paul Traina <pst@shockwave.com> Subject: RE: SLIP: Check IP Version (please test) Message-ID: <01BB321C.FFDBF960@webster.unety.net>
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On Wednesday, April 24, 1996 4:09 PM, Warner Losh[SMTP:imp@village.org] wrote: @: I agree, the point is that people play with IPv8 and it breaks slip. @ @There is no IPv8 that the IETF has defined. Others may have co-opted @that name. There is no reason to wrorry about it. IPv6, on the other @hand, is being actively defined.... @ @That said, will the extra two instructions really cause people grief? @ @Warner @ @ The IETF has their hands full trying to make the IPv4 system work... and thinking about the wonderful time they are going to have with IPv6...;-) People that want to have some fun with IPv8 and want to help build an OuterInternet using the existing Internet for core transport are welcome to help weave IPv8 into FreeBSD and other platforms. Some people look forward to the day when they can move beyond the Legacy Internet which is developing problems faster than they can be fixed. This is similar to the flight from large cities to the suburbs as a way to avoid problems and congestion. IPv8 provides room to grow without the massive engineering effort required for IPv6. The IPv8 approach creates 2,048 address spaces similar to the current IPv4 space. The challenge now is to link those address spaces using FreeBSD, host-based routers. In many respects it is like creating airplanes as a replacement for the railroads. The IPv8 pilots will not be restricted to flying only over railroad tracks. Instead, IPv8 will carve its own direction using FreeBSD as a base upon which to build. Everyone that has contributed to FreeBSD and who continues to contribute to FreeBSD should be proud of the work they have done. In over 20 years of hacking UNIX kernels, I have not seen a better version of UNIX and a better group of software engineers. I look forward to "meshing with your bits"....:-) -- Jim Fleming UNETY Systems, Inc. Naperville, IL 60563 e-mail: JimFleming@unety.net
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