[ih] IP version 7

[Bob Hinden]

Francis,

> On Dec 18, 2020, at 11:15 AM, Francis Dupont via Internet-history <internet-history at elists.isoc.org> wrote:
> 
> In your previous mail you wrote:
> 
>> the sequence was that once we (the IPng directorate, Allison & I) had decided on what we were going to
>> recommend as IPng I went to Jon and asked for an IP version number  - he said that the next available
>> number was 10 (5 was ST2 and the others had been assigned to the experimental IPng protocols SIPP,
>> TUBA and Catnip)
> 
> => TUBA got the number 7

According to https://www.iana.org/assignments/version-numbers/version-numbers.xhtml

TUBA was assigned 9.    TP/IX was assigned 7.

BTW, I am not sure why 8 and 9 are labeled as historic, but 7 isn’t.  I will ask IANA about this off list.

Bob


> 
>> I went back to Jon - he suggested asking the SIPP folk to release 6 since the experimental SIPP IPng
>> protocol was not going to go anywhere - I asked Steve & Bob if that would be OK and they agreed
>> so IPng became IPv6
> 
> => this matches what I can remember... A bit old as I went to Amsterdam for
> the 27th IETF (first outside NA) in July 1993 with a TUBA implementation.
> 
> For IPv6 itself first implementations appeared in March 1995 with a demo
> at Stockholm for the 33rd IETF in July. I do not know for the 32nd IETF
> as I didn't come to Danvers.
> 
> Regards
> 
> Francis.Dupont at fdupont.fr
> 
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