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0 pointsteddyh10y ago0 comments

> Sure, it might take ~10 years for all freezers and forgotten L3 switches to support it, but why not start at all?

I seriously doubt that any change in notation would be beneficial enough to be worth the 10 years of work, incompatibilities and bugs.

You don’t see people making this kind of fuss about MAC addresses; that’s because people know that they aren’t supposed to memorize them, and we treat them accordingly. That’s the thing about IPv6 - you have to realize that you have to let go of the notion of memorizing IP addresses, just as it would never occur to you to know your MAC address by heart. Use the DNS; eliminating the need to memorize IP addresses is what the DNS is meant for.

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toast010y ago

MAC addresses are actually worse, some software displays uses colons to separate, and some uses dashes. IPv6 addresses are ungainly, and have two forms (canonical short, and canonical full), but you can usually put either form wherever you need an address, and there's good library support. I guess that's a benefit of a multiple decades adoption; by the time I get to use it, everything works already. :)

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