Ah, yes, that would be the work on Op, which IIRC can act as a sort of proxy, meaning you shouldn't have to re-write any clients or servers. There is also an ex

Ah, yes, that would be the work on Op, which IIRC can act as a sort of proxy, meaning you shouldn't have to re-write any clients or servers. There is also an experimental implementation of 9P "streams", which actually resemble a passive FTP transfer--a separate TCP connection is negotiated via the 9P connection and then used solely to transfer file data.