Re: Comments on draft-thain-ipv8-01

Stephane Bortzmeyer <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.ietf.general
Organization NIC France
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On Thu, Apr 16, 2026 at 01:41:37PM +0000,
 Andrew <[email protected]> wrote 
 a message of 39 lines which said:

> This was sent to me by … maybe a half dozen people. 
> 
> Is this some sort April Fools joke?

In France at least, at least two information sites (both very
low-cost, with poor articles and therefore widely read and quite often
quoted by Google) relayed this information as if it were an "official"
IETF project:

https://www.frandroid.com/culture-tech/3067103_cest-quoi-lipv8-la-solution-pour-enfin-regler-le-probleme-des-adresses-internet
https://www.it-connect.fr/cest-quoi-ipv8-un-nouveau-draft-ietf-veut-ressusciter-ipv4/
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