intellectual property issues? the IETF could not get change control
on V8? 
bmanning@karoshi.com wrote:
intellectual property issues? the IETF could not get change control
on V8?
Vroooooooooooom <grin>
But ford has a /8 in IPv4 so they surely would like it if the protocol
carried their name too 
> I haven't had time to look, but just for my clarification,
> why was IPv8 not pursued further. I remember there was a discussion on
IPv6
> vs IPv8 and the argument to go directly to IPv8 instead, but I had to
drop
> out from following the discussions since.
8 PIP The P Internet Protocol [PXF]
eg:
http://ntrg.cs.tcd.ie/undergrad/4ba2/ipng/ian.pip.html
http://free.vlsm.org/v01/internet/ietf/00/0019.txt
and more if you google around...
Greets,
Jeroen
PS: Nooo... IPv8 and IPv16 mentioned by a certain person have
nothing to do with it, even better there is no spec of those