On 01/11/2012 12:20, Masataka Ohta wrote: > We should better introduce partially decimal format for > IPv6 addresses or, better, avoid IPv6 entirely.
No we shouldn't. Text representations of IPv6 addresses are already a complete pain to parse. We don't need to add to this pain by adding a new format which gains us nothing in particular over existing schemas such as that suggested by Eugeniu. Nick