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Re: Other use cases for header insertion (was Re: Header Insertion and TI-FA)

Nick Hilliard <nick@foobar.org> Mon, 11 May 2020 22:57 UTC

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Subject: Re: Other use cases for header insertion (was Re: Header Insertion and TI-FA)
To: Robert Raszuk <robert@raszuk.net>
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Robert Raszuk wrote on 11/05/2020 21:43:
>     I'm not sure this is feasible without changing the IP version number.
> 
> How about IPv6+ ?

the IP version number is maintained in an IANA registry:

https://www.iana.org/assignments/version-numbers/version-numbers.xhtml

So there's no such thing as IPv6+. The version number is integer-only.

Nick

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