Worth Reading: A Historical Perspective On The Usage Of IP Version 9
As early as 1994 (on April 1st, to be precise) a satire disguised as an Informational RFC was published describing the deployment of IPv9 in a parallel universe.
Any similarity with a protocol that started as a second-system academic idea and is still experiencing hiccups in real world even though it could order its own beer in US is purely coincidental.