[IFWP] Re: fyi - an exchange of mail with ICANN

[Greg Skinner]

Karl Auerbach wrote:

> What is bothering me is the question of who has the ultimate authority to
> say "no" to a standards body (the IETF being one) that wants a number for
> a standard protocol?

> I suspect that this won't often be a problem, but it could happen in some
> of those tight spaces, like the IP protocol number.

Speaking of which, the assigned number decimal 8 for the IP protocol does
not seem to match what is getting "press" for IPv8 these days.  At least,
what is being called IPv8 today does not match what I had understood
the P Internet Protocol to be.

--gregbo