The Protocol That Learns from IPv6: Why the New IPv8 Draft Is Built to Save IPv4

This report summarizes a draft proposal for an "IPv8" protocol submitted to the IETF that claims full backward compatibility with IPv4 by using a 64-bit address format expressed as `r.r.r.r.n.n.n.n` (32-bit ASN routing prefix + 32-bit host). The draft proposes BGP8 routing rules tied to ASNs, a minimum `/16` allocation to limit routing table growth, integrated regional management for DHCP8/DNS8/NTP8/OAuth2 JWT/NetLog8, and a zero-trust model requiring DNS8 and WHOIS8 checks plus authentication tokens at egress; the text notes draft publication is not IETF endorsement and that the discussion period extends to October 2026.