[ih] Why is TUBA assigned IP version 9

[John Day]

No, I was thinking a lot weirder than Paul!  ;-)

At 20:08 -0700 2010/09/21, Steve Deering wrote:
>On Sep 21, 2010, at 7:41 PM, John C Klensin wrote:
>
>>Yes.  But the "strange character" the earlier note referred to
>>had an independent plan that he called "IPv8" without any number
>>assignment being made by anyone.  He also had an IPv16 plan; I
>>no longer recall the difference (if I ever did figure it out).
>>And his name was/is Jim Fleming.
>
>Ah yes, I had forgotten about him.  The IPv16 suggestion was 
>inspired, given the 4-bit width of the IP version field.
>
>(I had guessed that John Day was referring to Paul Francis, because 
>(a) Pip was nominally v8, (b) Paul was at Bellcore when he developed 
>it, and (c) Pip could justifiably be viewed as an outlier among the 
>"official" candidates, given its more adventurous design.)
>
>Steve