> I've seen proposals where the proposer does seem to sincerely believe it to be possible to somehow fit more than 32 bits in a 32-bit field.
If someone seriously brings that to me, I'm gonna try and come up with something witty...
"The thing people forget is that the periods in an IPv4 address take up space, too. If you know anything about data octets, you'd realize that were we're wasting adding 8 bits for EACH period just to make those addresses human readable. Periods are the junk DNA if IP addresses.
Fun fact: the reason Comcast is able to charge more for their Internet is because they got Congress to allow them to charge extra for the dots. You know how some people pay $40 for their Internet and you are paying $70? While they are talking to 32 bit addresses at $10 per 8 bits, you are paying the same $10 per 8 bits, and another $30 for IP addess 'junk DNA'! Pull out your cable bill and look for through the fine print. There's a reason the fine print is so small. That's how they obfuscate how they you charge you 75% and get away with it."
I wish I could remember where I saw it so I could share it with you all, but the argument was something like using more voltage levels to fit more values in each bit of the IP address. (It was probably in one of the ietf mailing lists, this sort of crankery seems to get posted there often for some reason.)
If someone seriously brings that to me, I'm gonna try and come up with something witty...
"The thing people forget is that the periods in an IPv4 address take up space, too. If you know anything about data octets, you'd realize that were we're wasting adding 8 bits for EACH period just to make those addresses human readable. Periods are the junk DNA if IP addresses.
Fun fact: the reason Comcast is able to charge more for their Internet is because they got Congress to allow them to charge extra for the dots. You know how some people pay $40 for their Internet and you are paying $70? While they are talking to 32 bit addresses at $10 per 8 bits, you are paying the same $10 per 8 bits, and another $30 for IP addess 'junk DNA'! Pull out your cable bill and look for through the fine print. There's a reason the fine print is so small. That's how they obfuscate how they you charge you 75% and get away with it."