"Mandarin Chinese, one of so many Chinese dialects, has over 64,000 pictograms,"
That's a 16 bit value per character (65,536 different combinations)... that should represent all of them :)!
"Not surprisingly, China is championing the next wave of the Internet, which would accommodate 340 trillion trillion trillion IP addresses."
This is probably IPv6 they are referring to...I can see the day where packets are always taxed with more header than data :). What's sick is that typically packets sent are IP wrapping TCP wrapping Ethernet...lots of overhead :)! (no, I don't have a better solution...I just like to complain :) :) I always liked ATM more ).
I know there are many different ways of doing what's described above, but it's funny how things are taxed more as they grow. Of course, if you grow the packet payload size, the tax rate of packet header decreases (i.e. you accomplish the same thing with lower taxes)....of course, with Dems in charge, they will probably push for a 64 byte payload limit to keep the internet fair for all to use resulting in a substantial packet header tax increase....I mean, it is not fair that some applications use payloads of 1500 bytes while others are restricted to 64 byte payloads.
eh, I am tired...long day...cannot think straight :P
But it would be 16 bytes for the address, eh?
(256)^16 = 3.40 x 10^38
ITV is already pushing the limits of THCP, and HDTV will break it. Considering that people notice video degradation at around 3%, the current protocol doesn't cut it.
Many consumers complain about VOIP problems that are really the result of IP, but the proven reliability of ATM comes with a price as well.
No taxation without optimization!