Re: Using IPv8 Addressing with IPv6

[Fred Baker <fred at cisco.com>]

At 03:34 PM 7/18/98 -0500, Jim Fleming wrote:
>What types of discussions will you be censoring ?

I don't think I used the word "censor". Every email list has a topic, and
the topic of the mailing list of the Internet Engineering Task Force is
things that pertain to the engineering of the Internet. Every mailing list
has someone who manages it, and someone whose responsibility it must be to
assure that it stays to its topic. In the case of the IETF list, I, the
chair of the IETF, and the designated stuckee for that task.

I should think that this would not be news to you. You have been removed
from many lists for carrying on off-topic discussions. gTLDs, Who doesn't
like whom, and why they don't like them, are not engineering issues. They
are off-topic, and inappropriate to a list of several thousand people
looking for engineering content.

As to the set of things you mention, I am not aware of an internet draft or
a mailing list for the discussion of that subject. I have little doubt that
you have created such a list. There is nothing wrong with starting an
engineering discussion on the IETF list, although I should think that it
might start out with a proposal, in the form of an internet draft
describing the protocol you describe as "IPv8". I would expect, as most
discussions do, that the discussion would in short order move to a list
specific to the subject. You should be aware, however, that the IP version
number 8 was assigned to Paul (Tsuchiya) Francis' PIP proposal; you really
should request an IP version number from the IANA, so that there is no
question of interoperability.