RFC-2001-07-11-000 IPv4+ and Testing of TOS Routing on New.Net Transport Whereas, IPv4 has long had a little used 8-bit field for TOS - Type of Service. http://www.unir.com/images/headers.gif Whereas, the need exists to expand Internet Addressing beyond 32 bits. Whereas, using the 8-bit TOS field as two 4-bit fields will expand the addressing to 36 bits, with existing IPv4 allocations, resulting in a 16 times increase in the size of the IPv4 Address Space. http://www.unir.com/images/address.gif Whereas, TOS Routing is now commonly available in most open-source operating systems. http://www.google.com/search?q=TOS+Routing Whereas, New.Net has recently crossed the 50,000,000 subscriber-access mark with its ISP transport, consisting of Earthlink, @Home, Prodigy, Juno, NetZero and a wide variety of other ISPs. http://www.new.net/about_us_partners.tp Whereas, on July 3, 2001 - AOL Submitted to the U.S. Federal Trade Commission http://www.ftc.gov/opa/2001/07/fyi0138.htm Application for approval of non-affiliated Internet service providers (ISPs) and alternative cable broadband ISP service agreements: "Through this petition, AOLTW has requested Commission approval of: 1) Juno Online Services, Inc. (Juno)" http://www.ftc.gov/opa/2000/12/aol.htm For Release: December 14, 2000 FTC Approves AOL/Time Warner Merger with Conditions Whereas, on July 9, 2001 ICANN singled New.Net out for special recognition. http://www.icann.org/icp/icp-3-background/lynn-statement-09jul01.htm Whereas, on July 10, 2001 Microsoft and VeriSign Announce .NET Alliance http://corporate.verisign.com/news/2001/pr_20010710.html http://www1.ietf.org/mail-archive/ietf/Current/msg12657.html Whereas, work continues on expanding all Internet resources available to netizens. http://www.ietf.org/mail-archive/ietf/Current/msg12574.html RFC-2001-07-01-000 IPv8 Expansion of Proof of Concept TLD Development Resolved, that IPv4+ Testing can begin on the New.Net Transport to ensure END-TO-END IPv4+ service without any changes to routers, software, etc. for Earthlink, @Home, Prodigy, Juno, NetZero, etc. to increase the Address Space of the IPv4 Transport by a factor of 16, buying users time to upgrade equipment and evolve to QoS - Quality of Service arrangements for better management of the transport used to service New.Net users. Resolved, that IPv4+ Testing is fully compatible with IPv8 and IPv16 Addressing. Resolved , that IPv5 indicators in the VERsion field are not needed for this testing, but could be useful in future experiments to more explicitly indicate the usage of the TOS field for QoS Routing, and to allow ISPs to quickly sort packets between legacy transports and transports constructed from newer, higher-speed, equipment. Resolved, that research work can continue on IPv7 which encompasses the IPv4+ (IPv5) TOS Routing and the usage of the disabled Checksum Field, per IPv8, to expand the Address Space by 8 additional bits to 44 bits, thus increasing the size of the Address Space by a factor of 256 beyond the 16 times increase with IPv4+ (IPv5). Jim Fleming http://www.unir.com Mars 128n 128e http://www.unir.com/images/architech.gif http://www.unir.com/images/address.gif http://www.unir.com/images/headers.gif http://www.ntia.doc.gov/ntiahome/domainname/130dftmail/unir.txt http://msdn.microsoft.com/downloads/sdks/platform/tpipv6/start.asp http://www.ietf.org/mail-archive/ietf/Current/msg12213.html http://www.ietf.org/mail-archive/ietf/Current/msg12223.html
