John Stracke wrote: > > > we can denote a node of now a day's Intranet as proxy > > ip address & node's IP address in the Intranet. eg > > 202.118.48.1.10.100.141.80 > > Do you remember bang paths? That's what you're proposing. Deep pain.
Also "poor man's routing" in DECnet Phase IV. A real nuisance, and absolutely not a permanent solution. There were several proposals for effectively extending IPv4 addresses in 1992/1994 and they were all analysed in some detail: none of them really worked, which is why we started IPv6. RFC 1752 gives an overview of the final decision. Brian
