alt Hacker NewsYep, just call it IPv8 and make it double the length of IPv4.
Ultimately, an address system that replaces “1.1.1.1” with “JEDBSO:7372B6D6A:727:8:72829:762927” or whatever just isn’t viable.
Even AWS doesn’t let you use IPv6 with anything… and they charge you for using IPv4 now.
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AWS supports IPv6 on a number their services now: https://aws.amazon.com/vpc/ipv6/ For example there are options to use their hosted memcache/redis service IPv6-only: https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonElastiCache/latest/dg/netw...
Shocking it took them so long but, hey, it's there now.
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.
I toyed with using ipv6 in my local network just to learn it and what a headache that was. Ultimately not worth the hassle. I can remember most of the important device ipv4 on my network, I can't say the same for v6.