Let's improve IPv6 support

[Alan Bateman]

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?)?
Do you expect a significant overhaul that would add new APIs and 
re-specify/modernize some of the existing APIs? If so then this seems 
significant enough to create a JEP. On the other hand, if this a series 
of point patches to address specific issues then it might be best 
handled as a linked sequence of issues in JIRA.

As regards the CCC then the proposal is to replace this with a new 
"Compatibility & Specification Review" group in OpenJDK [1].

-Alan

[1] 
http://mail.openjdk.java.net/pipermail/gb-discuss/2017-January/000320.html