Comment by free_bip
5 days ago
This is the first time I've heard this critique. I think most people don't care if their IP address is easily human readable/memorizable. In my experience when people do deal with ipv4/v6 addresses directly, they just copy-paste.
Man, readability of IP numbers is a important thing. You are not always in a situation where you can simply copy the address.
I can tell you what is what simply from the Ipv4 address, but when its IPv6, my dyslexia is going to kick my behind.
Readability reduces errors, and IPv6 is extreme unreadable. And we have not talked yet about pre-fix, post-fix, that range :: indicator, ... Reading a Ipv6 network stack is just head pain inducing, where as Ipv4 is not always fun but way more readable.
They where able to just extend IPv4 with a extra range, like 1.192.120.121.122, 2.... and you have another 255 Ipv's ... They did the same thing for the Belgium number plates (1-abc-001) and they will run out in the year 11990 somewhere lol...
The problem is, that Ipv6 is over engineered, and had no proper transition from Ipv4 > Ipv6 build in, and that is why 30 years later, we are still dealing with the fallout.
Genuinely speaking, that sounds like a process issue if you really can't copy/paste. Perhaps you don't have control over whichever scenario you're talking about but not describing, but data entry is famously error prone regardless of it being 12 characters or 32, and if you're trying to focus on reliability, avoiding errors, you should be avoiding it at all costs.
Sure most people don't care, just the ones who have to figure out why it's not working, and man does it suck for them.
I can keep a v4 in my head, briefly. v6 not so much. Or shout one across a room to someone.
Of course that’s due to the relatively small amount of information it contains and having a larger address space is always going to break that.
Do you live under a rock? The memorability of ipv4 was one of the major issues brought up from the very beginning.