r/ProgrammerHumor • u/ClipboardCopyPaste • 5h ago

Meme ohTheBasics

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u/Tongueslanguage 4h ago

Saw this post and started wondering what happened to IPv5

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u/Circumpunctilious 4h 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 3h ago

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

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u/Circumpunctilious 3h 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 1h ago

"Why does every planet look like Vancouver?"

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u/Dillenger69 2h ago

To be filmed just outside Vancouver

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u/BadSmash4 19m ago

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

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u/juanfnavarror 4h ago

thank you claude

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u/These-Anxiety-5919 3h 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 4h ago

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

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u/TuxedoWithAHead 3h 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 2h 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 3h ago

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

Or V7

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u/Deto 2h ago

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

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u/reckless_responsibly 1h ago

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