I think other torrent developers will be more kind towards Tixati's new protocols if he renames them to

v3 = v1.5 and

v3.1 = v1.8

I mean this is the best way to put it considering the documentations presented by Tixati itself.

I followed up on your earlier point about how the newer protocol versions are classified and asked a Tribler developer, and their view seems to line up with what you said.

From what I understand, Tixati protocols v3 and v3.1 are more like extensions or iterative updates to protocol v1, rather than completely new protocol frameworks like BEP52 ( https://bittorrent.org/beps/bep_0052.html  ).

So from that perspective, it might be more accurate, at least in terms of naming and documentation, to treat them as incremental updates, like part of a v1.x series, instead of calling them entirely new versions.