> I know its stupid, but ipv6 addresses are just so hard to remember and look at that I think its just human nature to gravitate towards the simplicity of ipv4.
If only there was a system that allowed for easy to remember human labels to be translated to a machine-usable sequence of bits that we call "an address"…
This was discussed in the early 1990s. Criteria that were to be used for selecting then-IPng (§5.1: 10^12 / 2^40 was the minimum):
* https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc1726
The winning proposal, SIPP, was originally 'only' 64 bits, but it was decided to go to 128:
* https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc1752
> I know its stupid, but ipv6 addresses are just so hard to remember and look at that I think its just human nature to gravitate towards the simplicity of ipv4.
If only there was a system that allowed for easy to remember human labels to be translated to a machine-usable sequence of bits that we call "an address"…