Re: Comments on draft-thain-ipv8-01

On Thu, Apr 16, 2026 at 10:31 AM Stephane Bortzmeyer
<[email protected]> wrote:
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> On Thu, Apr 16, 2026 at 01:41:37PM +0000,
>  Andrew <[email protected]> wrote
>  a message of 39 lines which said:
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> > This was sent to me by … maybe a half dozen people.
> >
> > Is this some sort April Fools joke?
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> 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:
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> 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/

I noticed The Register published an articled recently.  From "Veteran
network architect proposes IPv8 – to improve IPv4, not leapfrog v6"
(12 May 2026), <https://www.theregister.com/networks/2026/05/12/veteran-network-architect-proposes-ipv8-to-improve-ipv4-not-leapfrog-v6/5238474>:

    A veteran network architect named James Thain has drafted a proposal
    for “Internet Protocol Version 8” (IPv8) and hopes to crowdfund
    work to create a testbed that will demonstrate his ideas.
    ...

    In conversation with The Register, Thain said he created the IPv8 draft
    because existing protocols were developed for the networking problems
    of the day, and things have now well and truly moved on. He also thinks
    that few organizations other than hyperscalers and network operators
    have a good reason to adopt IPv6, because it doesn’t offer major
    improvements over IPv4 and migrations to the newer protocol seldom
    produce return on investment.
    ...

Jeff