Jon Postel will swizel in his grave if v10 is not assigned by IANA first. Let's not confuse the market. A working group at ETSI has been formed 6 months ago called NGP ( Next Gereation Protocols) lashing at v4 and v6 to invent a new one. Also the ITU will jump on this one to occupy the v10 space :-) Latif -----Original Message----- From: ipv6 [mailto:ipv6-bounces@xxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Brian E Carpenter Sent: 12 November 2016 02:43 To: Randy Bush <randy@xxxxxxx> Cc: Khaled Omar <eng.khaled.omar@xxxxxxxxxxx>; ipv6@xxxxxxxx; ietf@xxxxxxxx Subject: Re: IPv10. On 12/11/2016 14:15, Randy Bush wrote: >> Right now it seems that you have got a solution proposal for a >> problem, that is IMHO not very clearly described. > > how about ipv4 and ipv6 are incompatible on the wire and this has > created a multi-decade ipv6 charlie foxtrot? Yes, I suggest mentioning that to Vint, Bob and a few others in 1977, so that they can design IPv4 with extensible addresses. People in 2016 will be grateful. Brian -------------------------------------------------------------------- IETF IPv6 working group mailing list ipv6@xxxxxxxx Administrative Requests: https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ipv6 --------------------------------------------------------------------