Re: IPv9 ??

for those of you in the US
april fools day dates from the introduction of the gregorian calendar
in the 16th century, and invovled moving the start of the year from
apr 1 to jan 1

in france, a posson d'avril is a rather nice phrase for a person who
is subject of one of these (supposed harmless) pranks - obviously they
hadn't heard of the IRS:-)

of course, 
IPv5 is alive

In message 
<DPEOIGDNPBCLADBPNGAGKEEFCCAA(_dot_)glen(_dot_)morehead(_at_)powerupnetworks(_dot_)com>,
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en Morehead typed:

> > For those of you outside the U.S. (and, I suppose, parts of Europe), April 1
> > is known as April Fool's Day.  People play practical jokes on each other;
> > some of them are rather elaborate and created just for April Fool's.  If you
> > scan back through the RFC index, there are well over a dozen RFCs published
> > on April 1 through the years that are bogus - some of them pretty
> > sophisticated, and most of them fun (the transmission of IP packets over
> > avian carriers, updated with QOS, is one of my favorites.)
> >
> > When you have an hour or so, take a look at these creative and fun
> > "Informational" or "Experimental" RFCs.
> >
> > Regards,
> > Glen
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Jiwoong Lee [mailto:porce(_at_)n016(_dot_)co(_dot_)kr]
> > Sent: Tuesday, 17 April 2001 21:35
> > To: ietf(_at_)ietf(_dot_)org
> > Subject: Re: IPv9 ??
> >
> >
> > What fun! I've heard a lot about IPv5, but it's first time to see IPv9!
> >
> > It seems that IPv6-IPv9 appeared as solutions to IPv4 address shortcoming,
> > as indicated IAB Routing and Addressing Task Force. Am I right ?
> >
> > One quick question: Why IPv1-IPv3 left untouched ?
> >
> > Jiwoong
> >
> >
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "Srihari Raghavan" <sraghava(_at_)vt(_dot_)edu>
> > To: "Wang Hui" <hwang(_at_)ustc(_dot_)edu>; <ietf(_at_)ietf(_dot_)org>
> > Sent: Tuesday, April 17, 2001 8:16 PM
> > Subject: RE: IPv9 ??
> >
> >
> > > See RFCs 1606 and 1607.
> > >
> > > They are dated 1 April. Hopefully that should give some idea :)
> > >
> > > /Srihari
> > >
> > > -----Original Message-----
> > > From: Wang Hui [mailto:hwang(_at_)ustc(_dot_)edu]
> > > Sent: Tuesday, April 17, 2001 4:51 AM
> > > To: ietf(_at_)ietf(_dot_)org
> > > Subject: IPv9 ??
> > >
> > >
> > > I happen to find out a new Internet Protocol called IPv9 in a search
> > engine.
> > > I dont know what is IPv9?  What's the relationship between IPv9 and IPv6
> > or
> > > else?
> > >
> > > Could anyone give me some URLs to follow.
> > >
> > > Thanks in advance.
> > >
> > > -Wang Hui
 cheers

   jon