does anyone believe that this IPv8 proposal is actually meant to be taken seriously? Like, it's literally impossible to design a better proposal for censorship if one tried, so I treated it as a joke proposal. Does this have any actual possibility of being accepted, and should we be worried at all? I think not, but I'm no expert in standards by any means, so I'm asking people on here

@esoteric_programmer only people who don’t know what they’re talking about and/or haven’t read it take it seriously. random crackpots have been proposing IPv6 replacements for years and they will never be accepted because they are nonsensical (IPv10, IPv4+, another IPv8 that I can’t find an actual draft for and appears to have been hallucinated by some guy in the 1990s (search for “ipv8 jim fleming”))

it was quite possibly intended by the author as a serious proposal, but it has no chance whatsover of being accepted as one, not least because it doesn’t make any sense and contains hallucinated references to other internet drafts (like “wifi8”) that don’t exist

@noisytoot ah, I thought as much, I became more concerned when I stumbled across an article analyzing the proposal in detail and considering it at face value. I think it would be better if the proposal would be deleted outright, or maybe the IETF can't or doesn't want to do that?

@esoteric_programmer I don't think it will be deleted (considering the previous nonsensical IPv6 replacement proposals weren't). They should just add a banner saying it's unofficial to the archive page (there's one on the datatracker already)