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So much this. Please don't call this IP. We already have an Internet Protocol and this project seems to work as a layer on top of it, much like a P2P-VPN.

Details and explanation in this expired IETF Internet Draft: https://tools.ietf.org/id/draft-pouwelse-trustchain-01.html

Like calling your own totally independent and unrelated implementation of a neural network yolo.v5 This is just clickbait.

This, along with the lack of an RFC (see my top-level comment) seals my judgement of this project as mere content marketing.

IMHO, the libp2p specifications [0] are much more interesting.

[0] https://libp2p.io/

I find it funny and irreverent. There probably never will be an IPv8 so there's no need to worry about a naming conflict.

I'm all for funny names but this one seems like it would just cause more confusion than it's worth. The fact that they list it as the sole FAQ probably means that many folks have been confused.

I hereby request that they change the project name to one of the not-too-perilous-but-frequently-selected-references-to-Monty-Python for a very silly name indeed.

Maybe they mean layer 8 ;)