[72301] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: China deploys Internet protocol version 9 network
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (bmanning@vacation.karoshi.com)
Tue Jul 6 02:27:13 2004
Date: Tue, 6 Jul 2004 06:26:38 +0000
From: bmanning@vacation.karoshi.com
To: John Obi <dalnetuzer@yahoo.com>
Cc: nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <20040706061506.52483.qmail@web41708.mail.yahoo.com>
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
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
