IPv7: Identity-Centric Network Protocol for Security, Proxy Mitigation, and Operability (opens in new tab)

This document specifies a network-layer protocol, IPv7, that extends the Internet Protocol model with an identity-carrying address form and an origin-validation mechanism intended to mitigate abuse of residential proxy infrastructure. IPv7 replaces purely numerical source addressing with a hierarchical identity string and a Variable- Length Identity Block (VLIB) that carries an Ephemeral Identity Token (EIT), provider and tenant identifiers, role/policy signalling, and an Origin Signature ver...