Show HN: We implemented the IPv8 Internet-Draft in the Linux Kernel, Musl Libc, and BGP The Hook: Why We Built This A few weeks ago, an Internet-Draft titled Internet Protocol Version 8 (IPv8) — draft-thain-ipv8-02 caught our eye. The draft makes some extraordinary claims: Zero Address Exhaustion : Every ASN holder automatically receives 4,294,967,296 host addresses ($2^{32}$). 100% Backward Compatibility : "IPv4 is a proper subset of IPv8... There is no flag day and no forced migration." Total Network Management : Every packet is validated against DNS8 and WHOIS8; all elements are authorized via OAuth2 JWT tokens; and all core services (DHCP, DNS, NTP, Syslog, WHOIS, NAT, ACLs) are bundled into a single "Zone Server" . Most network engineers would laugh this off as an April Fools RFC written by an enterprise architect on buzzword overdrive.…