In China: IPv9 (??)

From: Joe Crawford <Joe Crawford <joe@...>>

Date: 2004-07-02 17:53:36

Anyone ever heard of this before today? Ipv4 and IPv6 I've heard of. But
this is news to me.

http://www.chinatechnews.com/index.php?action=show&type=news&id=1405
China's New Generation Of Ipv9 Network Technology Ready
July 2, 2004

"At the New Generation Internet Ten-Digit Network Industrialization &
Development Seminar held on June 25th at Zhejiang University, it was
announced that China's Internet technology, IPv9, had been formally
adapted and popularized into the civil and commercial sectors.

After ten years of research and development, IPv9 will be used on projects
with the National Safety Defense System, National Digital TV Network, IPv9
network experimental programs and many other organizations.

Based on a ten-digit computing method, IPv9 has its own address protocol,
nameplate protocol, transitional protocol, and digital domain name
regulations and standards as stated by Mr. Xie Jianping, founder of the
IPv9 protocol and leader of the Ten-Digit Network Technology Standard
Team. Along with being compatible with IPv4 and IPv6, IPv9 can also
realize logistic separations between them and safely control them.  On
small-scale trials in Shanghai's Changing and Jinshan Districts, IPv9
technology has proven stable and safe.

IPv9 consists of three sets of root domain name servers and two sets of
hard-connect servers. The two sets of domain name parsing servers each
have a parsing capacity of three million users and fifty percent
simultaneously. Digital domain name parsing servers, English domain name
parsing servers, Chinese domain name parsing servers, IP address primal
allotment server, DHCP server, IPv4/IPv9 duel-used 1000M routers, 1000M
channel router, IPv4/IPv9 address switching server, crystal circuit
transmitter and crystal circuit light routers have been applied to IPv9
protocol demonstrative projects.

So far, China is the only country in the world that has consolidated
domain names, IP addresses and MAC addresses into ten-digit text files.
China and the United States are currently the only two countries that
possess root domain name analysis servers, IP address servers, independent
domain names, IP addresses and MAC address sources.  Shanghai Jiuyao
Digital Network Co., Ltd has been established to popularize the IPv9
technology. The company will work with telecom operators such as China
Telecom, China Unicom, China Mobile and China Netcom to better publicize
the IPv9 technology."

	- Joe