[apnic-talk] "IPv8"
Hi,
Someone asked me privately about IPv8.
IP version 8 was more popularly known as "PIP". It one of the proposed
IPng protocols before "SIP" was chosen to be IPv6. To my knowledge, no
further work has been done on PIP since the decision was made to go with SIP.
Jim Fleming, I suspect the most commonly found person in "trash immediately
without reading" mail filters on the planet (he's in mine), has decided to
take the name "IPv8" for his ... (no good word here, its not a protocol --
perhaps "collection of half baked ideas"?) for whatever reason.
Jim Fleming's "IPv8" exists only his fevered mind and a few people he's
conned into cooperating with him.
There is a really good reason you won't see many technical people
responding to Jim Fleming. Most have (from painful experience) decided
Fleming is a certifiable loon who is not worth wasting time on.
Unfortunately, this means people who have not had the displeasure of
dealing with Fleming (and thus who don't filter him out) get the wrong idea
-- that his various fantasies can actually work. It is more likely the
remaining IPv4 address space will be immediately allocated to the 50 US
states (something else Fleming proposed a while back, but strangely, not on
the APNIC-TALK list).
Regards,
-drc
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