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Re: China deploys Internet protocol version 9 network

  • From: bmanning
  • Date: Tue Jul 06 02:28:54 2004 
On Mon, Jul 05, 2004 at 11:15:06PM -0700, John Obi wrote:
> 
> Hello,
> 
> Have you heard of IPv9? or it was IPv8?
> 
> China's Internet technology Ipv9,which being
> compatible with IPv4 and IPv6,has been formally
> adapted and popularized into the civil and commercial
> sector. 
> 
> http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2004-07/05/content_1572719.htm
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> -J

	IPv9 is the TUBA protocol - RFC 10xx - from the last century. :)
	This is a modification that uses the 10digit telephone#.
	Tony Hain refered to this as "e164-like". Others have less
	complementary things to say.

--bill