Re: China deploys Internet protocol version 9 network

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