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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.
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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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