Date: Sat, 04 May 1996 23:33:14 -0700 From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@time.cdrom.com> To: Darren Reed <avalon@coombs.anu.edu.au> Cc: imp@village.org (Warner Losh), FreeBSD-hackers@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: IPv8 Tutorial #1: Minimal IPv8 hack Message-ID: <768.831277994@time.cdrom.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sun, 05 May 1996 16:11:11 %2B1000." <199605050613.XAA16227@freefall.freebsd.org>
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Well, if nothing else it's pretty confusing. When I first saw this mentioned, before receiving clarification, my reaction was to go "What?! IPv6 isn't even out yet, now somebody's talking about IPv8?? What the &*^%@#$! is going on here?!?" These changes should start going under a different operating title, at the very least. Jordan > In some mail from Warner Losh, sie said: > > > > : Protocol numbers aren't there to be chosen lightly, they should be > > : registered with the IANA first, before use. > > > > That's why I said before that he's Co-opted the name. He's said > > before here that the IANA or IETF isn't involved with his scheme. > > Given this, I'd advise against putting hacks for IPv8 in any FreeBSD > distribution. It's simply not a good idea, IMHO. >
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