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