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Folks, All this talk about IPv8. A liitle background check says that v8 is already spoken for. Jim needs to get a real number if he wants to go through with his charade. Sorry for continuing this, put it's time this stuff was at least acknowledged as bogus to the core. ============== VERSION NUMBERS In the Internet Protocol (IP) [RFC791] there is a field to identify the version of the internetwork general protocol. This field is 4 bits in size. Assigned Internet Version Numbers Decimal Keyword Version References ------- ------- ------- ---------- 0 Reserved [JBP] 1-3 Unassigned [JBP] 4 IP Internet Protocol [RFC791,JBP] 5 ST ST Datagram Mode [RFC1190,JWF] 6 IPv6 Internet Protocol version 6 [Deering] 7 TP/IX TP/IX: The Next Internet [RXU] 8 PIP The P Internet Protocol [PXF] 9 TUBA TUBA [RXC] 10-14 Unassigned [JBP] 15 Reserved [JBP] REFERENCES [RFC791] Postel, J., ed., "Internet Protocol - DARPA Internet Program Protocol Specification", STD 5, RFC 791, USC/Information Sciences Institute, September 1981. [RFC1190] Topolcic, C., Editor, "Experimental Internet Stream Protocol, Version 2 (ST-II)", RFC 1190, CIP Working Group, October 1990. PEOPLE [JPB] Jon Postel <[email protected]> [JWF] Jim Forgie <[email protected]> [RH6] Robert Hinden <[email protected]> [RXU] Robert Ullmann <[email protected]> [PXF] Paul Francis <[email protected]> [RXC] Ross Callon <[email protected]> [Deering] Steve Deering, <[email protected]>, March 1995. Regards, Dave
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