Re: Introducing : Brand-new Internet Protocol "Five Fields"

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On 12/14/2015 8:23 AM, John Kristoff wrote:
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



At this point I would suggest that the discussion on this topic has exceeded the mandate for the list. I would suggest that creating a separate list and announcing it and moving all further discussion on the specifics of this proposal to that list would be appropriate.

At the beginning of this discussion the question was asked of why the sergeant at arms threatened posting restriction. I wasn't actually surprised at that PR warning as we've already got a replacement for IPv4 in the form of IPv6. It took us over 20 years to get from initial discussions to reasonable deployments and we're still working on it. The form of the proposal - BCD representation of IP addresses as its best claim to fame - initially led me to believe it was a troll proposal rather than something serious. I now see the author believes it to be a serious proposal, but I also believe that it's 20 years too late and provides no benefit over IPv6. I'm willing to be shown wrong, but I'd really like not to read further discussions about it on this list until there's something of a buy in from a greater crowd.

Mike




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