On 12/14/2015 8:23 AM, John Kristoff wrote:
On Mon, 14 Dec 2015 04:10:34 +0000 (UTC)
<lloyd(_dot_)wood(_at_)yahoo(_dot_)co(_dot_)uk> wrote:
IP protocol version 5 is already defined and in usefor RFC1190, and
that use would have to be deprecatedfirst. Picking 7 is easier; for a
long time someoneon this list was pushing an idea of IPv8... and IPv9.
I believe the IPv8 you are referring to was hardly a serious proposal.
Regardless, 7, 8 and 9 were reserved for TP/IX, PIP and TUBA
respectively.
<https://www.iana.org/assignments/version-numbers/version-numbers.xhtml>
John
At this point I would suggest that the discussion on this topic has
exceeded the mandate for the list. I would suggest that creating a
separate list and announcing it and moving all further discussion on the
specifics of this proposal to that list would be appropriate.
At the beginning of this discussion the question was asked of why the
sergeant at arms threatened posting restriction. I wasn't actually
surprised at that PR warning as we've already got a replacement for IPv4
in the form of IPv6. It took us over 20 years to get from initial
discussions to reasonable deployments and we're still working on it. The
form of the proposal - BCD representation of IP addresses as its best
claim to fame - initially led me to believe it was a troll proposal
rather than something serious. I now see the author believes it to be a
serious proposal, but I also believe that it's 20 years too late and
provides no benefit over IPv6. I'm willing to be shown wrong, but I'd
really like not to read further discussions about it on this list until
there's something of a buy in from a greater crowd.
Mike