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IPv5 never existed. The version number "5" in the IP header was assigned to identify packets carrying an experimental non-IP real-time stream protocol called ST. ST was never widely used, but since the version number 5 had already been allocated the new version of IP was given its own unique identifying number, 6. ST is described in RFC 1819.
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