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Mathieu,
I did not mean to insist on this becoming part of Natty. While that would have been a good thing, I can understand that the release cycle has progressed too far now.
However, I wanted to object to your argument which I interpreted as essentially: «it does not matter if IPv6 is supported out of the box now since only power users need it anyway». In my opinion, that's not the case - a newly established ISP in the Asia-Pacific region will find it extremely difficult to provide IPv4 service as the region simply does not have any more IPv4 addresses available for allocation, and carriers like T-Mobile USA have announced plans to deliver their mobile broadband services as IPv6-only.
Ubuntu, in its current form, would not support such networks, and that would mean that the ISPs in question would either need to simply declare Ubuntu as unsupported and tell people to use Windows instead or figure it out on their own, or they would need to permit Ubuntu's lack of IPv6 support to limit them in how they structure their network. None of these are a good thing, neither for the end user, for the ISPs, or for the internet community at large - which really needs to move towards IPv6 as soon as possible; IPv4 has already reached the end of the road in the Asia-Pacific and it is just a matter of months before Europe and North America will follow suit.
So please make it a priority for Oneiric - the internet community does absolutely not need more devices and implementations that cannot fully support IPv6 networks, as that just makes the whole ordeal of transitioning away from IPv4 even more difficult and painful than what it already is...
Oh, and by the way - I will be happy to help testing the change once you make it in Oneiric, just let me know when.
Best regards,
Tore