Re: China deploys Internet protocol version 9 network

[bmanning () vacation karoshi com]

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