From owner-freebsd-hackers Sat May 4 23:33:39 1996 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id XAA25203 for hackers-outgoing; Sat, 4 May 1996 23:33:39 -0700 (PDT) Received: from time.cdrom.com (time.cdrom.com [204.216.27.226]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with ESMTP id XAA25186 for ; Sat, 4 May 1996 23:33:37 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by time.cdrom.com (8.7.5/8.6.9) with SMTP id XAA00770; Sat, 4 May 1996 23:33:14 -0700 (PDT) To: Darren Reed cc: imp@village.org (Warner Losh), FreeBSD-hackers@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: IPv8 Tutorial #1: Minimal IPv8 hack In-reply-to: Your message of "Sun, 05 May 1996 16:11:11 +1000." <199605050613.XAA16227@freefall.freebsd.org> Date: Sat, 04 May 1996 23:33:14 -0700 Message-ID: <768.831277994@time.cdrom.com> From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" Sender: owner-hackers@FreeBSD.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk 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. >