"Michiel van der Vlist -> Terry Roati"  wrote:

 TR>> Can things be improved? Sure, but will they, highly unlikely?

 MvdV> So... speaking about improving things, moving forward and encouraging
 MvdV> the use of new technology... How is your IPv6?

I agree that we would be better off, if the Internet had already switched from
IPv4 to IPv6. It's also important that Fido software do support IPv6
connections and is not limited to IPv4. I'm still curious why do you think it
is important that every Fido node is reachable over IPv6? As long as systems
are able to connect to each other what difference does it make? Having more or
less Fido nodes with IPv6 does not influence IPv6 adaption, this is something
that Internet providers need to solve.

If we want to encourage the use of new technology, why don't we have flags for
TLS, Tor hidden services (.onion) or i2p connections? ;) My FTN node at home is
only reachable over Tor, because I'm behind a carrier grade NAT. Connections
over Tor are automatically encrypted and it doesn't matter if you connect over
an IPv6 or IPv4 relay.

I don't think we should discriminate against any transport mechanisms or
strongly prefer one over the other. Whatever works.

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