The consensus on HN/Lobsters seems to be that this is some kind of joke or crackpot or some other thing not to be taken seriously. This page says it more clearly: "IETF has published a draft"...
The consensus on HN/Lobsters seems to be that this is some kind of joke or crackpot or some other thing not to be taken seriously.
This document is an Internet-Draft (I-D). Anyone may submit an I-D to the IETF. This I-D is not endorsed by the IETF and has no formal standing in the IETF standards process.
"IETF has published a draft" sounds big and official, but it's in the same ballpark as "Wikipedia has published an article."
Interesting that they’re making it backwards compatible with IPv4. That was probably one of the biggest issues with IPv6 adoption. It wasn’t a drop in replacement, you still had to run the old...
IPv4 is a proper subset of IPv8. An IPv8 address with the routing prefix field set to zero is an IPv4 address. No existing device, application, or network requires modification. The suite is 100% backward compatible. There is no flag day and no forced migration at any layer.
Interesting that they’re making it backwards compatible with IPv4. That was probably one of the biggest issues with IPv6 adoption. It wasn’t a drop in replacement, you still had to run the old separate infrastructure for people using IPv4.
It looks like it took from 1996 to 2017 for IPv6 to move from first draft to adopted final specifications, so I wouldn’t expect this anytime soon?
Backwards compatibility is a great idea in theory, but I wonder how an IPv4 device would properly route an IPv8 packet when it's only looking at four octets of the destination address? I guess I...
Backwards compatibility is a great idea in theory, but I wonder how an IPv4 device would properly route an IPv8 packet when it's only looking at four octets of the destination address? I guess I should probably read the draft, but I tend to doubt IPv8 would be a drop in replacement. (Yes, IPv6 is/was a pain to adopt.)
The consensus on HN/Lobsters seems to be that this is some kind of joke or crackpot or some other thing not to be taken seriously.
This page says it more clearly:
"IETF has published a draft" sounds big and official, but it's in the same ballpark as "Wikipedia has published an article."
Interesting that they’re making it backwards compatible with IPv4. That was probably one of the biggest issues with IPv6 adoption. It wasn’t a drop in replacement, you still had to run the old separate infrastructure for people using IPv4.
It looks like it took from 1996 to 2017 for IPv6 to move from first draft to adopted final specifications, so I wouldn’t expect this anytime soon?
Backwards compatibility is a great idea in theory, but I wonder how an IPv4 device would properly route an IPv8 packet when it's only looking at four octets of the destination address? I guess I should probably read the draft, but I tend to doubt IPv8 would be a drop in replacement. (Yes, IPv6 is/was a pain to adopt.)
Anyone any idea how serious this is? edit: other comments clarify: not.