RE: [tlug] IPv6

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> -----Original Message-----
> From: David Santinoli
> Sent: Wednesday, November 14, 2007 12:00 AM


> 
>  "What happened to IPv5?
> 
>   Version 5 of the IP family was an experimental protocol developed in
>   the 1980s. IPv5 (also called the Internet Stream Protocol) was never
>   widely deployed. Since the number 5 was already allocated, 
> this number
>   was not considered for the successor to IPv4. Several proposals were
>   suggested as the IPv4 successor, and each was assigned a number. In
>   the end, it happened that the one with version number 6 was 
> selected."
> 


So...  v5 was only about a decade or so (or less maybe) than v4...  But
it bombed.

That makes sense.  ^_^  I am waiting to see how version 6 does.  :)
I hope it does well.


-- 
Ken