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> Something that isn't talked much about IPv6 and I believe has subtle and indirect influence on it's adoption is that it is far far far less human-readable tha
by darren_ 3y ago
> Something that isn't talked much about IPv6 and I believe has subtle and indirect influence on it's adoption is that it is far far far less human-readable than IPv4
What? This comes up in like 95% of ipv6 threads on HN (see also: ‘they should have just added an extra quad to v4 addresses’)
- justsomehnguy 3y agoMy grand father used the dots in the address! My father used the dots in the address! I used the dots in the address! Henceforth every human being should use the dots in the address till heat death of the universe!
- Aeolun 3y agoI'm certain the issue here isn't the dots. 123.123.238.217.110.100.1.1 would still have been perfectly readable. fdd2:1228:3372:1sdf meanwhile is pretty unreadable even at IPv4 length.
- throwaway71271 3y agoipv6 is 16 bytes, so more like 123.123.238.217.110.100.12.255.123.123.238.217.110.100.242.176
- Aeolun 3y agoTrue, but we probably don’t actually need enough bytes to address all the atoms on the surface of the earth a hundred times over.
- Dagger2 3y agoGood! If we did then we should've made it bigger. We don't know exactly how many address bits we're ultimately going to end up needing. Our only options are to go for "too big" or "too small". Giving how much effort it takes to deploy a new IP protocol, we should err on the side of having too many addresses rather than too few.
- ninkendo 3y agoI don’t understand… why do you consider the way longer one to be more readable than the shorter one? I find the colon string a lot easier to read, a lot easier to compare at a glance, and a lot easier to memorize.