"Kevin Oberman" <ober...@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
