Let's improve IPv6 support

[Chris Hegarty]

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.