Let's improve IPv6 support

[Martin Buchholz]

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?)?
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