[vidoc]

DJB's point is certainly valid, but in practice, while I had always shared the opinion that the Big Plan of all those committees to seamlessly migrate to IPv6 seemed a bit sketchy, in reality, it's worked quite well.

Funnily, having worked on adding dual-stack support to several pieces of software and protocols, my main grips with IPv6 remain how addresses are represented to humans. Despite compression and all, I realize there was no obvious way to make addresses easier to memorize and that's basically the price to pay to have a staggering 1'500 addresses per square meter of earth.

However, and it may sound a bit silly but I still consider that the choice of ':' as a separator was an unfortunate one, I'd have a hard time listing all the nasty implications it has in terms of parsing :)