In 2004, news reports emerged that China was developing a new "IPv9" technology to replace the existing
Internet Protocol
The Internet Protocol (IP) is the network layer communications protocol in the Internet protocol suite for relaying datagrams across network boundaries. Its routing function enables internetworking, and essentially establishes the Internet.
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. This appears to have been a proposal to link Internet addressing with Chinese 10-digit telephone numbers. The protocol was a research project of the Institute of Chemical Engineering (Shanghai), and there was little evidence that it gained any real-world adoption.
A small number of papers and patents have been published which refer to IPv9 addressing. Proponents of the scheme say that it promotes
digital sovereignty, and is superior to
IPv6
Internet Protocol version 6 (IPv6) is the most recent version of the Internet Protocol (IP), the communications protocol that provides an identification and location system for computers on networks and routes traffic across the Internet. I ...
in that it will allow every living cell to be assigned its own IPv9 address.
The Chinese IPv9 proposal is distinct from , "TCP and UDP with Bigger Addresses (TUBA)", a proposal for network address extension using
CLNP which was provisionally assigned the Internet Protocol version number 9, and , an
April Fools' Day Request for Comments
A Request for Comments (RFC), in the context of Internet governance, is a type of publication from the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) and the Internet Society (ISOC), usually describing methods, behaviors, research, or innovations appli ...
that describes a fictional IPv9 protocol that featured a vast addressing space and a huge number of network layers.
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The Internet uses the Domain Name System (DNS) to associate numeric computer IP addresses with human-readable names. The top level of the domain name hierarchy, the DNS root, contains the top-level domains that appear as the suffixes of all Intern ...
, an alternative DNS root proposal
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Telephone numbers in China
Telephone numbers in China are organized according to the Chinese Telephone Code Plan. The numerical formats of landlines and mobile phones are different: landlines have area codes, whereas mobile phones do not. In major cities, landline numbers ...
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New IP New IP refers to a set of proposals for a novel framework for a future Internet Protocol backed by Huawei and its subsidiary Futurewei which have notably been introduced to the ITU and the IETF and presented at various IEEE conferences between 201 ...
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