Gavin writes:

> Peter writes:
>  > With all the talk about IPv6 in the news, is there any hope of IPv6
>  > networking on the HP3000...ever?
>
>  I suspect the answer is almost certainly "no", but I don't expect that to
>  ever really become a problem.  Lots of things in the world are never going
>  to support IPv6 but are going to remain in use for a long time.
>
>  I suspect there will be gateways that make IPv4 and IPv6 interoperate in a
>  completely transparent manner, something like the way that NAT works today.

Gavin writes exactly the right things when he wrote what he wrote right
above. Gavin's speculations are almost certain to be the case. Converter boxes from
IPv4 to IPv6 will not be difficult to construct -- and even more importantly,
for some period of time following the introduction of IPv6, will find an
eager market.

But this is also basically the way that the HP3000 will stay current for next
decade or so. If someone invents some new protocol -- the equivalent of HTTP
perhaps -- that introduction too can be very easily handled by running it off
of an auxiliary box and automatically ftp'ing or telnetting the information
between the new box and the HP3000.

Wirt Atmar

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