Reply to post: Re: The Real Question no one has the spunk to ask.

Internet engineers tear into United Nations' plan to move us all to IPv6

Charles 9

Re: The Real Question no one has the spunk to ask.

IPv5 was the prototype that led to IPv6. Like with Linux kernels, odd numbers are experimental, even numbers are meant for general release.

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