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<div>I have a recollection that the IAB had recommended a v7 prior to
the IPng process, and there was some strange proposal by an even
stranger person that had laid claim to v8, so v9 would have been next
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<div>If Ofer's recollection (?) is correct, there were other proposals
and so some numbers must be missing some place for that story to be
correct. </div>
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<div>The early IAB proposal skipped v6, which is looking more and more
prescient in a weird sort of way.</div>
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<div>Take care,</div>
<div>John</div>
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<div>At 19:41 -0400 2010/09/21, Vint Cerf wrote:</div>
<blockquote type="cite" cite>correct</blockquote>
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<blockquote type="cite" cite>On Tue, Sep 21, 2010 at 5:11 PM, Ofer
Inbar <<a href="mailto:cos@aaaaa.org">cos@aaaaa.org</a>>
wrote:<br>
<blockquote>> > Anyone know why TUBA was assigned IP version
9?<br>
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> > <<a
href=
"http://www.iana.org/assignments/version-numbers/version-numbers.xhtml"
>http://www.iana.org/assignments/version-numbers/version-numbers.xhtml</a
>><br>
> ><br>
> > Wouldn't the mere use of TUBA obviate the need for an IP
version number<br>
> > assignment?<br>
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<blockquote>Vint Cerf <<a
href="mailto:vint@google.com">vint@google.com</a>> wrote:<br>
> We assigned numbers temporarily but v6 was the next in
"line" after v5 was<br>
> abandoned. V<br>
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<blockquote>To clarify, what I recall is that the various candidates
for "IP next<br>
generation" were each assigned a version number (arbitrarily?)
before<br>
we knew which would be chosen, and the final choice - which turned
out<br>
to be a hybrid - then got v6. For years we were talking about
"IPng".<br>
-- Cos</blockquote>
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