[ih] IP version 7

Marco Davids (Private) mdavids at forfun.net
Fri Dec 18 06:15:58 PST 2020


Hello,

Today I learned of:

https://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-iab-ipversion7
(also referred to in RFC1726).

It was written well before IPv6.

I know why IPv5 was skipped, but does anyone happen to know why IPv7 was 
ultimately dubbed IPv6?

-- 
Marco



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