That is correct - eventually we concluded that IPv5 (which was an experiment) was a dead end for purposes of carrying real-time, quasi-synchronous traffic. It was somewhat complex and as I recall was thought not to scale well.
vint At 10:29 AM 6/16/2003 -0700, Christian Huitema wrote: >> > (The questions and answers about "IPv5" are sort of funny.) >> >> Quite whatever happened to that? > >It is funny that the DoD wouldn't know, since they actually deployed it. >The code point 5 was used to differentiate packets belonging to the >"stream" service parallel to IP, ST-II (RFC 1190). It was used to carry >video conferences services. I remember taking part to one such >conference in a DARPA locale. > >-- Christian Huitema Vint Cerf SVP Architecture & Technology MCI 22001 Loudoun County Parkway, F2-4115 Ashburn, VA 20147 703 886 1690 (v806 1690) 703 886 0047 fax [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.mci.com/cerfsup
