There's already an ipv8 https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc1621 https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc1621 There's also at least three ipv9s, only one of which was

There's already an ipv8 https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc1621 https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc1621 There's also at least three ipv9s, only one of which was a joke https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_IP_version_numbers https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_IP_version_numbers