In message <20060220190314.GD753@circe.entropie.net>, "Martin S. Weber" writes:

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>Rather the question should be, why is INET6 in GENERIC?
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>(to achieve a deployment it doesn't have and never will ?)
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I'm probably going to regret posting this...

A certain large vendor in the upper-left corner of the US is strongly 
committed to IPv6.  Its next release, Vista, will *prefer* v6 
connections if they're available.  Rumor has it that their future plans 
*really* need v6.  We're better off beating on our stack now, 
especially anything to do with operating in a mixed environment.

		--Steven M. Bellovin, http://www.cs.columbia.edu/~smb