NIST IPv6 document
Robert E. Seastrom
rs at seastrom.com
Fri Jan 7 12:11:42 UTC 2011
"Kevin Oberman" <oberman at es.net> writes:
>> The next ship will be departing in a hundred years or so, advance
>> registration for the IPv7 design committee are available over there.
>
> Sorry, but IPv7 has come and gone. It was assigned to the TUBA proposal,
> basically replacing IP with CLNP. IPv8 has also been assigned. (Don't ask
> as it involved he who must not be named.)
In the grand tradition of list pedantry, I must correct both of these
statements. :-)
IPv7 was TP/IX, which I never really learned anything about (at least
nothing that I can remember) at the time.
IPv8 was PIP, which got merged with SIP to form SIPP which as I recall
evolved into IPv6. It had nothing to do with he who must not be
named, but you can't figure this out by googling IPv8 as all it
returns is a series of links to flights of fancy.
IPv9 was TUBA. Went down for political reasons, but in retrospect
perhaps wouldn't have been such a bad thing compred to the "second
system syndrome" design that we find ourselves with today (I know I'm
gonna take it on the chin for making such a comment, but whatever).
10-14 are unassigned, guess we'd better get crackin, eh?
-r
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