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I just read something about IPv8! Can anyone confirm this is real?
by allexpensespaid 6mo ago
I just read something about IPv8! Can anyone confirm this is real?
- Dagger2 6mo agoReal in what sense? Lots of people have come up with alternate L3 protocols for the Internet. For example, check out [1] which goes up to 999.999.999.999.999, or [2] which gets updated with some typo fixes every 6 months each time it's about to expire. Someone did post another one of these recently, but it's just a random person on the Internet. The IETF's draft database is more or less a pastebin service -- anyone can upload something there without it being a thing that's being taken seriously. Sometimes you get drafts like [3] as a demonstration of that. [1] https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/draft-eromenko-ipff-05 https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/draft-eromenko-ipff-05 [2] https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-chen-ati-adaptive-ipv4-address-space/ https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-chen-ati-adaptive-ipv... [3] https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/draft-meow-mrrp https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/draft-meow-mrrp