</div><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td>QUOTE </td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'>*Admits certain things:*
I presumed we were already using v5, seeing as v6 was simply released without any notification of v5 in the first place.
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For instance, just what the hell happened to v5 in the first place?</td></tr></table><div class='postcolor'>
Probably the same thing that happened to Winamp v4: they skipped a version to highlight how radical a change they think it is.

</div><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td>QUOTE </td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'>You can shoot me for asking the question, as i probably deserve it, but who exactly is IETF? o_O; related to IEEE in any way?</td></tr></table><div class='postcolor'>
Internet Engineering Task Force... they&#39;re the ones who take Internet Protocol-related suggestions, weed them out, sort them and make them into standards wherever relevant needs/issues are encountered.

If IPv5 perplexed you, maybe you should have a look at IETF RFC #1149 (Request for Comments) Internet Protocol over Avian Carrier

The IETF&#39;s job is to take suggestions and amend the IP protocol specifications when necessary.

As for what IEEE is, it stands for Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineering. (or something very close to that)

</div><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td>QUOTE </td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'>However i did state that a lot of people aren&#39;t using it because nobody else is[...]</td></tr></table><div class='postcolor'>
This is the chicken-and-the-egg problem... no need for / cannot use IPv6 until all the software and hardware is upgraded to support it, until then, people with IPv6 with have to make-do with IPv4 bridges unless they are doing point-to-point IPv6 with IPv6 apps.

Well, this does not have much to do with the original topic so I suppose this is it until the next time the tracker stuffs up with a Naruto release