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LIKE! especially because it kills the dreaded ipv6 dual-stack requirements.
Maybe variable length ip addressing for also ipv6 compatibility. yolo
An IP that relies on DNS or it doesn't work was the first GTFO for me skimming this.
Pretty much. The Protocol is fine. It is people / organistations and how and when they use it that is the problem.
Double stacking is a paradox. If everyone switched at the sametime or in a set timeframe on chosen dates there would be less of a delay.
If we get to the 19 January 2038 and we haven't fully transistioned to IPv6 I propose we just turn everything off and start again.
URG pointer field is labeled "Urgent Meowing".
Definitely vibe-drafted.
https://lowendbox.com/blog/vibe-drafting-ietf-proposals-is-now-a-thing-the-ipv8-proposal/
1000%. And it's a terrible proposal anyway. There are actually already a few crappy "simplify and merge IPv4 and IPv6 into one" proposals that people (rightfully) ignore. IIRC there was one actually called IPv9, made by the same crackpot who thought that putting physical fiber optic wires between satellites was a smart idea.
Plot twist: there's probably satellites in space connected by fiber for spy or military purposes.
any ipv8 only deals?
Is IPV8 available everywhere?
It's deprecated, go with @yoursunny IPv9-only offer
True
The IETF process allows weird ideas to be submitted. That’s intentional. It keeps innovation open.... yet aside the fact that I would love the idea in the draft, well, not all of it as most is gibberish, it is 2.5 decades late
It does look like a April-Fools-satire
Oh dear, that would be lovely to se right???
Unfortunately he is way over all, deploying IPV9.
Now don’t get me wrong: from a human-readable perspective, something like this would have been far better. Actually, @yoursunny mentioned something similar before, either here or on OGF. Others have said the same: a larger address space made of numbers, not letters mixed in an alphabet soup.
IPv6 resistance is not about "we have enough addresses on ipv4 or we can nat the shit out of it" it is more about "This is annoying/hard to read and I don’t want to deal with it".
IPv6 is technically solid, but aesthetically terrible a fuqing mess
and sincerely… from a human perspective, do you think people in 20 years will enjoy setting this up ? 2a0f:85c1:4d3:17::12 - 
highly doubt it.....
But yes, IETF absolutely shit its pants when it over-engineered IPv6.
Maybe next time, we should let the German These Folks figure this out
All in all, today I hardly see any new IP related system that could successfully emerge.
you'd think with the automation we have and DNS that can be easily manged via API, we would automate it by now.
No we are still handling IPs like neanderthals.
case in point, there is thread in the forum, from a provider that boosts his own AI bot heavily, and they have no IPv6 deployment.
Even tho I am 100% for a free and uncensored internet... damn... sometimes I feel the need of something like:
"Welcome to the internet! Please answer 3 simple questions to make sure you can think before surf!"
He says:
“no changes required”
....
later: requires version-8 packets, ARP8, ICMPv8, BGP8/OSPF8/IS-IS8, A8 DNS records, Zone Servers, and XLATE8 stateful translation...
Now that has more logic than OP's posted draft.
The last few Meows really hit a sensible chord.
My parents haven't configured a static IP in their lives and neither will most of their grandchildren with IPv6.
Who are "people" in this scenario? It's kind of pathetic when network "professionals" complain about having to copy and paste different strings for the most part and type some extra characters the odd time someone would need to. You should operate on names, which are easier to type and remember than numbers.
You remind me of a retired teacher I met on vacation one time. She was complaining that when they switched from imperial to metric, she had to teach Celsius instead of Fahrenheit, and couldn't (either from lack of effort or from being stupid, not sure). She ranted as if she was asked for pi to 99 places.
Also, it'll get much easier configuring large networks since with all the subnets, you can specify a single fucking address and let automated subnetting happen. None of this 50 different /24's.
he came to nanog to discuss bgpv8 https://lists.nanog.org/archives/list/[email protected]/thread/KPDE4FNBRLQYZOVF5FUAAGJCBSKNS42Q/
The World needs to get onto one language to make it easier to tell if someone is making nonsense due to language barrier or mental illness.
good