Re: Anybody Using IPv6?

From	"Carlos E.R." <robin_listas@es.invalid>
Newsgroups	comp.os.linux.misc, comp.os.linux.advocacy
Subject	Re: Anybody Using IPv6?
Date	2025-06-25 12:12 +0200
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On 2025-06-25 11:25, Marc Haber wrote:
> c186282 <c186282@nnada.net> wrote:
>>    I turn OFF IPV6. My ISP doesn't support
>>    it anyway. Saves PROBLEMS.
> 
> That is a decidedly bad decision.
> 
>>    Yes, eventually, we WILL need something
>>    like IPV6 ... but I rec IPV5, using the
>>    same old format. That ought to do for at
>>    least 25 years.
> 
> There is no IPv5.

There is, but experimental, not finished, abandoned.

It doesn't even have an Wikipedia page. There is one Spanish, though:

<https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/IPv5>

IPv5

IPv5 is version 5 of the Internet Protocol (IP) defined in 1979 and 
which did not go beyond the experimental level. It was never used as a 
version of the Internet Protocol.

The version number ‘5’ in the IP header was assigned to identify packets 
carrying an experimental protocol, which was not IP, but ST. ST was 
never widely used and as version number 5 was already assigned, the new 
version of the IP protocol had to stick with the next identifier, 6 
(IPv6). ST is described in RFC 1819.

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<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_Stream_Protocol>

Internet Stream Protocol

The Internet Stream Protocol (ST) is a family of experimental protocols 
first defined in Internet Experiment Note IEN-119 in 1979,[1] and later 
substantially revised in RFC 1190 (ST-II) and RFC 1819 (ST2+).[2][3][4] 
The protocol uses the version number 5 in the version field of the 
Internet Protocol header, but was never known as IPv5. The successor to 
IPv4 was thus named IPv6 to eliminate any possible confusion about the 
actual protocol in use.

-- 
Cheers, Carlos.

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Re: Anybody Using IPv6? Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> - 2025-06-25 06:55 +0000
  Re: Anybody Using IPv6? c186282 <c186282@nnada.net> - 2025-06-25 03:11 -0400
    Re: Anybody Using IPv6? Marco Moock <mm@dorfdsl.de> - 2025-06-25 10:01 +0200
    Re: Anybody Using IPv6? Marc Haber <mh+usenetspam1118@zugschl.us> - 2025-06-25 11:25 +0200
      Re: Anybody Using IPv6? "Carlos E.R." <robin_listas@es.invalid> - 2025-06-25 12:12 +0200
        Re: Anybody Using IPv6? Marc Haber <mh+usenetspam1118@zugschl.us> - 2025-06-25 13:50 +0200

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