[ih] IP version 7

[Joseph Touch]

> On Dec 18, 2020, at 6:15 AM, Marco Davids (Private) via Internet-history <internet-history at elists.isoc.org> wrote:
> 
> 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?

I don’t know why it “follows current nomenclature” to skip IPv6 at the time.

But this document isn’t IPv6; what this calls “IPv7” is a placeholder for the response to this RFC’s architectural assertions. 

IPv6 emerged from responses to RFC1550.

Joe