Networks Giving v4 an ‘area code’ based on ASNs to give operators more addresses to play with, without upgrades A veteran network architect named James Thain has drafted a proposal for “Internet Protocol Version 8” (IPv8) and hopes to crowdfund work to create a testbed that will demonstrate his ideas.  Thain’s proposal appeared as an Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) Internet-Draft on April 16th. Like all such documents, it has no official standing – the multistakeholder systems under which the internet is governed allow open participation and this is Thain’s contribution.…