Going to 50-bit addresses with ten bits per field?
That makes no sense from a computing efficiency
viewpoint, as those are not powers of 2.
48 bits would be on octet boundaries, but harder to
process than 64 bits in a word (ATM had trouble with
48-byte payloads, too. A fudge between those who
wanted 32 bytes and those who wanted 64.)
IP protocol version 5 is already defined and in use
for RFC1190, and that use would have to be deprecated
first. Picking 7 is easier; for a long time someone
on this list was pushing an idea of IPv8... and IPv9.
(Try this: sitting through talks about how awesome IPv6 is
and how it solves addressing problems and routing table
problems, then asking innocently 'why is there a
jump from IPv4 to IPv6? What happened to 5?' If they can't
tell you that, then just maybe they shouldn't be trying
to sell you stuff.)
L.
'don't understand it fully' may be somewhat understated.
Lloyd Wood
lloyd.wood@xxxxxxxxxxx
http://about.me/lloydwood
From: Harald Alvestrand <harald@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: ietf@xxxxxxxx
Sent: Friday, 11 December 2015, 20:43
Subject: Re: Introducing : Brand-new Internet Protocol "Five Fields"
Den 10. des. 2015 18:53, skrev Alexey Eromenko:
> Good news: After much jumping through hoops I was able to decipher
> what-it-takes to get my draft spec submitted (I still don't understand
> it fully, though).
Where's the transition plan?
>
> In seven parts.
>
> 1. Internet Protocol - Five Fields:
> https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-eromenko-ipff/
>
> 2. Internet Protocol - Five Fields: Addressing Architecture
> https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-eromenko-ipff-addressing/
>
> 3. Internet Protocol - Five Fields: ICMP
> https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-eromenko-ipff-icmp/
>
> 4. Internet Protocol - Five Fields: Link Address Resolution Algorithm
> (ARP replacement)
> https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-eromenko-ipff-lara/
>
> 5. Internet Protocol - Five Fields: Mobile TCP (Mobile IP replacement)
> https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-eromenko-ipff-mops/
>
> 6. Internet Protocol - Five Fields: DNS extensions
> https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-eromenko-ipff-dns/
>
> 7. Internet Protocol - Five Fields: UDP modification
> https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-eromenko-ipff-udp/
>
> Yeehoo ! Submitted !
>
> -Alexey Eromenko "Technologov"
>