wait before you flame

I did not intend that last message to start a whole gigantic thread about
ipv6/ipv8, I just want to know if anyone has drafted anything about
ipv8...

Just to head off the onslaught.

Nick

You must mean the P Internet protocol. :wink:
Per IANA assignment ftp://ftp.isi.edu/in-notes/iana/assignments/version-numbers.

VERSION NUMBERS

In the Internet Protocol (IP) [RFC791] there is a field to identify
the version of the internetwork general protocol. This field is 4
bits in size.

Assigned Internet Version Numbers

Decimal Keyword Version References
------- ------- ------- ----------
    0 Reserved [JBP]
  1-3 Unassigned [JBP]
    4 IP Internet Protocol [RFC791,JBP]
    5 ST ST Datagram Mode [RFC1190,JWF]
    6 IPv6 Internet Protocol version 6 [Deering]
    7 TP/IX TP/IX: The Next Internet [RXU]
    8 PIP The P Internet Protocol [PXF]
    9 TUBA TUBA [RXC]
10-14 Unassigned [JBP]
   15 Reserved [JBP]

REFERENCES

[RFC791] Postel, J., ed., "Internet Protocol - DARPA Internet Program
         Protocol Specification", STD 5, RFC 791, USC/Information
         Sciences Institute, September 1981.

[RFC1190] Topolcic, C., Editor, "Experimental Internet Stream
          Protocol, Version 2 (ST-II)", RFC 1190, CIP Working Group,
          October 1990.

PEOPLE

[JPB] Jon Postel <postel@isi.edu>

[JWF] Jim Forgie <FORGIE@XN.LL.MIT.ED>

[RH6] Robert Hinden <Hinden@ENG.SUN.COM>

[RXU] Robert Ullmann <ariel@world.std.com>

[PXF] Paul Francis <francis@cactus.ntt.jp>

[RXC] Ross Callon <callon@wellfleet.com>

[Deering] Steve Deering, <deering@parc.xerox.com>, March 1995.

That helps..and from what I can see, is about that only documentation that
exists about what seems to be a very vaporware protocol, which is all I
really wanted to find out.

Nick

The legitimate IPv8, aka PIP and the vaporware protocol smoked by some people
of the same name are not the same things.

-dorian