Masami Eiri is introduced as the project director on Protocol Seven (the next-generation Internet protocol in the series' time-frame) for major computer company Tachibana General Laboratories. He had secretly included code of his very own creation to give himself absolute control of the Wired through the wireless system described above. >protocol Seven >the next-generation Internet protocol in the series' time-frame Anime:Released November 26, 1998 >By 1998, the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) had formalized the successor protocol. Is that an IPv6 reference?