Martin,
On 17/03/2017 18:47, Martin Buchholz wrote:
Google cares a lot about IPv6, and not only because Vint Cerf works at
Google.
We have some local modifications and some networking expertise and
intend to port/contribute that to openjdk10.
Most of this is the work of my colleagues Alexander Smundak and Paul
Marks.
We hope we can do most of this work without asking too much of other
net-dev engineers, but we will likely need help with porting to
non-Linux platforms, running JPRT, and perhaps CCC/JEP process.
We expect to make a large number of commits. Should there be a JEP to
cover this? Is there a current net-dev engineer who feels they "own"
this problem (Chris?)?
Doing this work under a JEP would give folks a better insight what
Google is planning here. As you know, we have tinkered a lot in this
area, even in 9, but there has not be a concerted effort in recent
times. We are also very interested in making improvements here.
Working on this in a branch of the jdk10/sandbox would facilitate
collaboration, and lighten the process as changes can be flattened
when bringing them into the mainline.
-Chris.
