Internet Protocol Version 8 (IPv8)

Q

quovadis

Honorary Master
Joined
Sep 10, 2004
Messages
29,433
Reaction score
19,292
Location
South Africa.
An IETF draft for IPv8 proposes a backward-compatible successor to IPv4/IPv6 that bakes in network auth, DNS, DHCP, telemetry and route validation, while keeping familiar dot-decimal addressing.

Addresses would look like r.r.r.r.n.n.n.n, with the first 4 octets as the ASN/prefix and the last 4 as the host IP.

IPv4 would simply sit inside it as 0.0.0.0.x.x.x.x

Internet Protocol Version 8 (IPv8)

Internet Protocol Version 8 (IPv8) is a managed network protocol suite that transforms how networks of every scale -- from home networks to the global internet -- are operated, secured, and monitored. Every manageable element in an IPv8 network is authorised via OAuth2 JWT tokens served from a...
www.ietf.org
 
IPv4: 4,294,967,296 addresses
IPv6: 3.4×10^38 addresses
IPv8: 1.8×10^19 addresses

🤔
 
Looks much more promising than the pain that ip6 is.

Backwards compatibilty - easy to read. I'm sold, well, not keen on the oauth part, but i'm not likely to be implementing / writing services at this point in my life.
 
Smiggles said:
Taking it from 4 to 8? Who got paid millions for that brilliant idea?
Click to expand...
6 is in use, and I believe 5 and 7 were already proposed but not used. I did not Google this to make sure, but go ahead.
 
Thought it would be interesting to see if I could understand this article but no. It's like a Neanderthal trying to read a book on Quantum physics. Better stick to the movie and sport threads.
 
quovadis said:
I think it’s safe to say that humans don’t like hexadecimal numbering schemes nor do they want to support ipv4 and ipv6 stacks separately.
Click to expand...
Dual stack is annoying, agreed that is why we should push for ipv6 transition everywhere. In SA we are at 3% of all traffic in other countries eg. France, Germany, India they are averaging +70%. It is not as if we have s choice to ignore ipv6.
 
Something to know: Anyone can submit a proposal to the IETF. The fact that this was proposed, and thus published as a proposal, means absolutely nothing. What's even worse, It adds more complexity without solving any real problem. Most computer users don't ever see an IP address, and if they did, it wouldn't mean anything to them anyway.

Networking professionals have been learning IPv6 as part of their certifications for decades now - CCNA introduced it in 2007. That leaves the rest of us working in IT, who should have skilled up on it at least a decade ago. Linux has supported IPv6 since 1996. The BSDs and Apple followed in 1999/2000 or thereabout. Even Microsoft got it done in 2001 with XP. So there really is no excuse any more.

Calling IPv6 a mess just advertises that you didn't bother learning it. The tricky bits - sub-netting, routing, etc - are hardly any different from v4, it's just bigger numbers and more octets. The rest is just new ways of doing things, which we deal with in every other domain anyway.

I think it's high time for the big tech players - Google, Microsoft, Amazon, Apple, etc - to get together an announce that they'll be discontinuing IPv4 support in 10 years or some such. That will get the last holdouts to get their act together. It's high time for CGNAT to die a miserable death.
 
You must log in or register to reply here.
Back
Top
Sign up to the MyBroadband newsletter
X