Alexey However good the idea, I cannot imagine that many people will wish to open a random zip file. - Stewart On 10/12/2015 12:42, Alexey Eromenko wrote:
Hi all, I have created a new Internet Protocol "Five Fields". Why ? Because IPv6 is hard to use, and I wanted to keep look & feel similar to IPv4. Problem with IPv6, is that those addresses are very hard for humans to remember, compare and visualize topologies in human brain. IPv4 has great look & feel, but it is exhausted. So I wrote a new replacement for IP. I did it, because I don't like to work with something long like this: 2001:db8:2e1:1a73:149f:88ff:fe81:6116 And it would be better, if we work with simpler addressing: 192.168.510.971.11 10.0.0.0.1 382.201.769.25.133 Draft spec. available. "Five Fields" offers 0...999 in each field, in dotted decimal notation, and includes unique features not found *anywhere else*. 10-bits x 5 fields. - x230,000 times larger address space than IPv4 (should be enough for several hundred years, including IoT) -Mobile TCP, allows moving Mobile Nodes between subnets, without losing connectivity. A replacement for Mobile IP. An order of magnitude simpler, and requires no access to routers and configuration-free. -IP-VRF header extension, allows doing VRF-VPN without MPLS (and without dot1q VLANs) -Super-lightweight, and should be faster than IPv4 or IPv6 by 1%-2%. Small overhead. -UDP/IP overhead is 28 bytes; UDP/IPv6 overhead is 48 bytes, but UDP/IP-FF overhead is just 26 bytes ! Even shorter than the original, yay ! -Simpler to implement than IPv4/v6, because no fragmentation. MTU path discovery is the way to go. -No broadcasts. -No IP header checksums (done at layer 4) -No autoconfiguration/SLAAC (this belongs to DHCP territory) -No IGMP required (it is optional now for Multicasts) -No Layer2 resolution. ARP-free protocol. I believe, that it is superior to both IPv4 and IPv6, simpler than both, and intended as a replacement for both. Substantial improvement on both. This draft specification describes various parts, the protocol itself, addressing scheme, Address Resolution Algorithm (without ARP), DNS extensions, Mobile TCP, and more... Draft spec download here: https://www.dropbox.com/s/mbyjo5da5zgi4kp/IP-FF-2015-12-10.zip?dl=0 IP-FF is about: o Short, human-readable addresses o Modularization of some perceived IPv6 bloat (NDP/IGMP/MLD/IPsec/SLAAC/Flow/...) o New features: IP-VRF and Mobile TCP, TCP Anycast. o Optimization: UDP/IPFF combo is just 26 bytes. Almost 50% cut in overhead vs IPv6. And no ARP. Please take a look, and see how good it is. If anybody would like to help me promoting this new protocol and implement it in code, feel free to write to my email. Best wishes, -- -Alexey Eromenko "Technologov", 10.Dec.2015. al4321@xxxxxxxxx .