Veteran network architect proposes IPv8 – to improve IPv4, not leapfrog v6
Giving v4 an ‘area code’ based on ASNs to give operators more addresses to play with, without upgrades
A veteran network architect named James Thain has drafted aproposal for “Internet Protocol Version 8” (IPv8) and hopes to crowdfund workto create a testbed that will demonstrate his ideas.
Thain’s proposalappeared as an Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) Internet-Draft on April16th. Like all such documents, it has no official standing – themultistakeholder systems under which the internet is governed allow openparticipation and this is Thain’s contribution.
The draft opens with a bold vision for IPv8, describing itas “a managed network protocol suite that transforms how networks of everyscale – from home networks to the global internet – are operated, secured, andmonitored.”
On the IPv8 websitehe describes it as “a managed network protocol suite that resolves IPv4exhaustion, unifies network management, and stays 100 percent backwardcompatible — no flag day, no forced...
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