diff --git a/1. Introduction and Foreword/Why version 6.md b/1. Introduction and Foreword/Why version 6.md index 708a181..8d24e56 100644 --- a/1. Introduction and Foreword/Why version 6.md +++ b/1. Introduction and Foreword/Why version 6.md @@ -12,7 +12,10 @@ Maybe we should start by asking why IPv4 was version 4. Stated simply, that was because version 0 was never used, and versions 1 through 3 were assigned during the evolution from ARPANET to TCP/IP. So version 4 was the next number available for use in -[RFC791](https://www.rfc-editor.org/info/rfc791). +[RFC791](https://www.rfc-editor.org/info/rfc791). A rather more subtle +explanation is given by the late Danny Cohen, one of the pioneers involved, +at 38 minutes and 26 seconds into the video +[A Brief Prehistory of Voice over IP](http://www.securitytube.net/video/1978). So why not IPv5? The answer is quite simple. The number 5 in the version field of the IP header was already assigned for what was called the