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justsomehnguyyesterday at 3:55 AM0 repliesview on HN

> intuitively understand IPV6 addresses because they look like MAC addresses with trisomy and are a pain in the ass to remember or type

I have north of 500 IPs I have some relation to. No way I would be bothered to remember them. Typing? Do you type IPv4s all day long? And it's still copy-paste 99% of times.

> for absolutely no benefit to the non-network engineer

Non-network engineer should work with names. And non-engineers don't 'work' with IPs at all. Look at your granpa - he's typing 'bbc' into the search form in the browser to get to bbc.com.

> nobody in their right mind can intuitively understand IPV6 addresses

And 99% of so called engineers can't understand even IPv4. So this is a moot point.