That is correct - eventually we concluded that IPv5 (which was an experiment)
was a dead end for purposes of carrying real-time, quasi-synchronous traffic.
It was somewhat complex and as I recall was thought not to scale well.
vint
At 10:29 AM 6/16/2003 -0700, Christian Huitema wrote:
(The questions and answers about "IPv5" are sort of funny.)
Quite whatever happened to that?
It is funny that the DoD wouldn't know, since they actually deployed it.
The code point 5 was used to differentiate packets belonging to the
"stream" service parallel to IP, ST-II (RFC 1190). It was used to carry
video conferences services. I remember taking part to one such
conference in a DARPA locale.
-- Christian Huitema
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