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Veteran network architect proposes IPv8, to improve IPv4, not leapfrog v6
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Giving v4 an ‘area code’ based on ASNs to give operators more addresses to play with, without upgrades.
Key facts
- This scheme means every ASN holder gets 2 32 host addresses
- 4,294,967,296 addresses apiece
- His scheme would see the IPv4 numberspace expand to around 30 trillion (3 x
- 10 13 ) unique addresses
- 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
- He thinks he can prove the nay-sayers wrong by building an
- IPv8 testbed and has commenced a crowdfunding campaign that aims to raise $100,000
- to cover the cost of developing open-source software
Summary
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. Thain’s proposal appeared as an Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) Internet-Draft on April 16th. The draft opens with a bold vision for IPv8, describing it as “a managed network protocol suite that transforms how networks of every scale, from home networks to the global internet, are operated, secured, and monitored.” On the IPv8 website he describes it as “a managed network protocol suite that resolves IPv4 exhaustion, unifies network management, and stays 100 percent backward compatible, no flag day, no forced migration.”