Re: WG ACTION: TP/IX (tpix)

Steve Deering <deering@parc.xerox.com> Fri, 28 May 1993 17:51 UTC

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Subject: Re: WG ACTION: TP/IX (tpix)
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Fri, 28 May 93 09:01:48 PDT." <9305281201.aa08335@IETF.CNRI.Reston.VA.US>
Date: Fri, 28 May 1993 10:31:05 -0700
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From: Steve Deering <deering@parc.xerox.com>
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> Description of Working Group:
>  
> 	TP/IX is a new version of the IP and TCP/UDP protocols, to
> 	advance the Internet technology to the scale and performance of
> 	the next generation of internetwork technology. TP/IX has been
> 	assigned the IP Protocol Identifier 7.

Shouldn't that be IP Version number 7, not Protocol Identifier 7?  IP
Protocol numbers identify transport protocols.

Steve