Den 14. des. 2015 14:23, skrev John Kristoff: > On Mon, 14 Dec 2015 04:10:34 +0000 (UTC) > <lloyd.wood@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > >> IP protocol version 5 is already defined and in usefor RFC1190, and >> that use would have to be deprecatedfirst. Picking 7 is easier; for a >> long time someoneon this list was pushing an idea of IPv8... and IPv9. > > I believe the IPv8 you are referring to was hardly a serious proposal. > Regardless, 7, 8 and 9 were reserved for TP/IX, PIP and TUBA > respectively. > > <https://www.iana.org/assignments/version-numbers/version-numbers.xhtml> > > John > If we're including proposals not taken seriously, we should include IPv16, although it always made my head hurt to fit that number into a 4-bit field. I do believe the proposer took them seriously, though.