AI slop and wacky network addressing proposals

Jim Reid <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.ietf.general
Message-ID <[email protected]> 

> On 16 Apr 2026, at 16:32, Stephane Bortzmeyer <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> There were crazy "post-IPv4" proposals long before generative AI became a thing.

Indeed. My favourite was one that surfaced at OSI ~20 years ago: IPv9. [9 has got to be better than 8, right?] It was based on RFC1606 - A Historical Perspective On The Usage Of IP Version 9. Yes, really.
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