China implementing IPv9??

"Reports from China that the country has widely adopted a next generation Internet protocol, called IPv9, have raised eyebrows in the networking community," John Leyden notes on The Register. "IPv9 which is 'compatible with IPv4 and IPv6, has been formally adapted and popularised into the civil and commercial sector,' The People's Daily reports. "This was news to the sysadmin crowd on NANOG, who'd never heard of IPv9 as an established technical standard.... We asked the IPv6 Task Force, a UK group formed last year to promote wider adoption of IPv6, the next generation Internet protocol, if they could shed any light. But they were equally perplexed by the Chinese reports which have been repeated unchallenged in the IT press today. Mat Ford, technology adviser to the IPv6 Task Force, said: 'In the absence of any public technical specification, this is still in the category of "sub-vapourware" at the moment.'"