IPv9

The IPv9 is a relatively unheard-of version of the Internet Protocol, a network layer protocol for packet-switched internetworks, attributed to China. The Internet Protocol version number 9 has not been allocated for this protocol by the Internet Assigned Numbers Authority. It is designated as the to compete with IPv6, the planned successor to the currect version of the Internet Protocol, IPv4, for general use on the Internet.On June 25, 2004, an announcement was made at the New Generation Internet Ten-Digit Network Industrialisation & Development Seminar ang University]], that the protocol had been "formally adapted and popularised into the civil and commercial sectors" of China. It had apparently been under development for ten years prior to the announcement, and was to be used in China's National Safety Defense System and National Digital TV Network, among other programs and organisations. The validity of any meaningful implementations of IPv9 is in question. It has been described as a protocol similar to IPv6, but with a 256-bit address space instead of IPv6's 128 bit address space. Chinese experts have suggested that the required edge router translation protocols would not be worth the questionable benefit of expanding the address space further.

IPv9, Deployment & Possible Benefits
The New Generation Internet Ten-Digit Network Industrialisation and Development Seminarwas held on 25th June, 2004 at Zhejiang University. It was announced that China's Internet technology known as IPv9 had raised eyebrows in the networking community. IPv9 which is compatible with IPv4 and IPv6 had been formally adapted and popularised into the civil and commercial sectors.

Comparison with IPv6
IPv9 and IPv6 are both the Internet Protocol in order to replace the version of IPv4 currently being used on the Internet that has been around for over twenty years. While it was appropriately designed for the networks of its day, IPv6 builds on the strengths of IPv4 and contains everything that was proven to be stable in IPv4 and extended it to meet the needs of the future Internet. The IPv9 10 digits referred to are phone numbers that navigate the web by using phone numbers.

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