Hi, perhaps offtopic for commercials and publics today, but who knows what'll happen in the future...the Internet itself was also a "spin-off" by US military (see chapter "historics" in common IP books and look for "ARPANET").
In an article of Satellite Broadband magazine (April issue) is an interesting box (in paperprint) or section (online) about the protocol suite SCPS, not far away from IPv4|6 and TCP, looking sometimes more like an extension. It uses e.g. address mapping and compression to save bandwidth. You can read it online here: http://industryclick.com/magazinearticle.asp?magazineid=5&releaseid=1 0037&magazinearticleid=144933&siteid=3 Subheadline "Maximized network efficiency in stressed environments" If IPv8|16 people are no longer subscribed to that list, pls. forward - perhaps interesting too for them because in contrast to their thoughts and wishes, SCPS is already reality. Peter --------------------------------------------------------------------- The IPv6 Users Mailing List Unsubscribe by sending "unsubscribe users" to [EMAIL PROTECTED]