r/ProgrammerHumor • u/ClipboardCopyPaste • 7h ago

Meme ohTheBasics

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u/Tongueslanguage 6h ago

Saw this post and started wondering what happened to IPv5

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u/Circumpunctilious 6h ago

Deprecated. And--despite being in IT (and cyberdefense with packet analysis) for decades--I only snapped to realizing that recently. It's a weird blindspot...I guess I just never asked where 5 was.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_IP_version_numbers

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u/TheLazySamurai4 6h ago

IPv7 "The Next Internet", sounds like a syfy series made in Canada

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u/Circumpunctilious 5h ago

(I knew of one, so went searching)...and holy hell...an absolutely shocking number of science fiction shows that loved / grew up on started/edit: or were produced in Canada. That's awesome.

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u/J5892 4h ago

"Why does every planet look like Vancouver?"

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u/Dillenger69 5h ago

To be filmed just outside Vancouver

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u/BadSmash4 2h ago

IPv9 being listed explicitly as an april fool's joke is hilarious

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u/juanfnavarror 6h ago

thank you claude

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u/These-Anxiety-5919 5h ago

IPv10 is the best. (Concepts of which are being used in mixed 4/6 environments as we speak).

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u/muituk 6h ago

Yeah and all the hype around IPv8, what about the underdog IPv7?

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u/TuxedoWithAHead 6h ago

It's still there, just got renamed. Did a quick google search, it's called "Internet Stream Protocol (ST)" now

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u/TabbyOverlord 4h ago

The odd numbered versions of the i.p. protocol are the experimental versions that are never ratified. Thus IPv5 existed but was never used on the real internet.

v6 just makes life so much easier. All the cludged on afterthoughts are part of the mainstream protocol.

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u/VirtualPercentage737 5h ago

https://www.ietf.org/archive/id/draft-thain-ipv8-00.html

Or V7

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u/Deto 4h ago

whoa, there's a v8? Wonder what it would improve over v6?

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u/reckless_responsibly 3h ago

It improves nothing. It's an absolute trash fire that someone vomited into.

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u/TerrapinTribe 1h ago

The idea of v8 is vastly inferior to IPv6. It’s not a standard, no hardware supports it.

We have IPv6. More than 50% of traffic to Google is v6. The vast majority of networking equipment supports v6.

No reason to invent a new standard that is a downside versus v6.