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Roadmap

v0.1 — Addressing core

• IPv8Address class
• ASN to prefix conversion
• Prefix to ASN conversion
• Address validation
• CLI command: ipv8lab addr

v0.2 — Packet format

• IPv8 Lab packet structure
• Packet serialization
• Packet parsing
• CRC32 checksum
• CLI command: ipv8lab packet

v0.3 — Routing simulator

• Route table
• Route lookup
• YAML config loader
• Simple routing simulation
• CLI command: ipv8lab route simulate

v0.4 — Local testbed

• Node abstraction
• Router abstraction
• Two-ASN demo
• Packet tracing
• Example scenarios

v0.5 — UDP transport experiment

• UDP framing protocol (magic + length)
• Async UDP transport (send/receive)
• UDP node runner with forwarding
• UDP network orchestrator
• CLI command: ipv8lab udp run
• UDP demo example

v0.6 — Developer tooling

• Packet hex dump utility (ipv8lab packet dump)
• JSON output mode (--json flag)
• Address summary JSON
• Packet summary JSON
• Mypy type checking in CI

v0.7 — Mesh, capture, dashboard, benchmarks, plugins

• Multi-hop mesh topologies with cycle detection
• Packet capture/replay (.iv8cap format)
• Web UI dashboard (dark theme, JSON API)
• Performance benchmarks (6 benchmarks)
• Plugin system for custom protocols
• Error hierarchy (IPv8LabError)

v0.8 — draft-thain-ipv8-02 spec compliance

• Address class classification per Section 4
• Spec-compliant packet header !BBHHHBBHIIII per Section 5.1
• Prefix validation and routing scope per Sections 3.5, 3.9, 3.10
• Two-tier routing table per Section 8.7
• Multicast/broadcast classification per Sections 10–12
• Border router ingress filtering per Section 18
• ICMPv8 protocol per Section 9
• 8to4 tunnelling per Section 13.3
• Device compliance tiers per Sections 17.1–17.3
• NIC rate limits per Section 17.5
• DNS A8 record type per Section 7
• VRF per Section 8.8
• PVRST per Section 17.4

v0.9 — Management suite & companion specs

• Cost Factor (CF) metric simulation per Section 1.6
• WHOIS8 mock resolver (ASN validation, route validation)
• DHCP8 lease simulation per Section 1.3 (single-response provisioning)
• Zone Server mock (OAuth8 cache, ACL8 engine) per Sections 1.3, 1.4
• NetLog8 telemetry client (SEC-ALERT, E3 traps) per Section 18
• Companion spec modules:
  • BGP8/IBGP8/OSPF8/IS-IS8 (draft-thain-routing-protocols-00)
  • RINE peering fabric (draft-thain-rine-00)
  • ARP8 with gratuitous announce (draft-thain-support8-00)
  • XLATE8 translation table (draft-thain-zoneserver-00)
  • Update8 and NIC certification (draft-thain-update8-00)
  • WiFi8 protocol (draft-thain-wifi8-00)
  • SNMPv8 MIB (draft-thain-ipv8-mib-00)

v0.10 — Integration scenarios

• End-to-end integration scenario (DHCP8 → OAuth8 → ACL8 → routing)
• Multi-zone simulation with Zone Server pairs
• BGP8 path selection with CF metric
• XLATE8 north-south traffic flow
• Interactive CLI for Zone Server management (ipv8lab zone)
• Multi-zone CLI commands (ipv8lab multizone)
• BGP8 path selection CLI (ipv8lab bgp8)
• XLATE8 flow CLI (ipv8lab xlate8)
• Performance dashboard with CF visualisation (ipv8lab cf)
• PCAP export for Wireshark integration (ipv8lab pcap)
• IPv8 packet fragmentation and reassembly (ipv8lab frag)
• Traceroute8 diagnostic utility (ipv8lab traceroute)

v0.11 — Security, operations & tooling

• NAT8 address translation gateway simulation (ipv8lab nat8)
• Flow monitoring and NetFlow8-style telemetry export (ipv8lab netflow8)
• QoS / traffic shaping based on TOS field (ipv8lab qos)
• Docker-based multi-node testbed (ipv8lab docker)
• TUI dashboard — Rich Live / Textual (ipv8lab tui)
• Packet fuzzer for protocol security testing (ipv8lab fuzz)
• mTLS / encryption layer for Zone Server auth (ipv8lab mtls)

v0.12 — Full spec compliance & companion protocols

• Interior Link Convention Protection (222.0.0.0/8 BGP8 filtering) per Section 19.4 (ipv8lab ilinkprot)
• /16 Minimum Prefix Enforcement at eBGP8 boundaries per Section 19.7 (ipv8lab prefixenf)
• Companion spec: draft-thain-whois8-00 — standalone WHOIS8 protocol (ipv8lab whois8)
• Companion spec: draft-thain-netlog8-00 — standalone NetLog8 protocol (ipv8lab netlog8proto)

Previously completed — draft-thain-ipv8-02 compliance

• ARP8-driven version selection simulation per Section 2
• Inter-Company Interop Prefix (127.127.0.0) and Two-XLATE8 Interop Model per Sections 4.6–4.7
• Private Interop ASN (65534/65533) reservation per Section 4.8
• Interior Link Convention (222.0.0.0/8) address validation per Section 4.10
• Address Usage Model — consolidated address space table per Section 4.11
• Socket API Compatibility mock (AF_INET8, sockaddr_in8) per Section 6.2
• CGNAT Behaviour simulation (r.r.r.r preservation, n.n.n.n-only NAT) per Section 15
• XLATE8 Even/Odd Load Balancing per Section 15.1
• Cloud Provider VPC simulation (zone prefix → VPC mapping) per Section 17
• RINE Prefix Protection (100.x.x.x filtering, SEC-ALERT) per Section 19.3

Future

• PyPI package publishing