[ipv6-wg] Disband IPv6 WG

Sat Oct 5 17:50:02 CEST 2019

On Thu, 3 Oct 2019 at 11:34, Jens Link <lists at quux.de> wrote:

>
> The new successor to IPv4 should not make the same mistakes as IPv6.
>
[...]

> - It MUST only have numbers and dots "."
>

Maybe we should allow IPv6 addresses to be written in dotted quad format
with the quads not being limited to 0..255 but instead 0..4294967295

So instead of writing 2001:4860:4860::8888 we would write
536954976.1214251008.0.34952 which is clearly easier to use.

bonus: your old regex ^[0-9]*\.[0-9]*\.[0-9]*\.[0-9]*$ will still work

Aled
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