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Why V10. Because 4+6?

• rbinv 9y ago
  Yes: "IPv10 allows hosts from two IP versions (IPv4 and IPv6) to be able to communicate, and this can be accomplished by having an IPv10 packet containing a mixture of IPv4 and IPv6 addresses in the same IP packet header."
  • qatanah 9y ago
    engineers have an obscure way of naming things.
    • vesinisa 9y ago
      Sound more like an in-joke. Cf. GNU (GNU's Not Unix) or YACC (Yet-Another Compiler Compiler).
      • rplnt 9y ago
        Or YAML, originally "Yet Another Markup Language", now "YAML Ain't Markup Language".
• Arnavion 9y ago
  >From here the name of IPv10 arises, as the IP packet can contain (IPv6 + IPv4 /IPv4 + IPv6) addresses in the same layer 3 packet header.
• agumonkey 9y ago
  Winamp did it first
  • jwfxpr 9y ago
    Really whipped the llama's ass?
• lifthrasiir 9y ago
  Not only because it is a proposed bridging solution between IPv4 and IPv6, the "version number" of IP is actually somewhat more like an identifier for subprotocols. There is the list [1] of all taken version numbers managed by IANA. IPv4 is the version 4 because former versions of protocols (0 thru 3) are long obsolete; IPv6 is the version 6 because the version 5 was taken by another experimental protocol; and IPv10 ought to be the version 10 because the versions 6 thru 9 were used for proposed successors to IPv4 (and eventually the protocol of version 6 was chosen). I'm not very sure if other assignments were possible in the current standard process though (e.g. up to IPv14 would be available). [1] https://www.iana.org/assignments/version-numbers/version-numbers.xhtml https://www.iana.org/assignments/version-numbers/version-num...