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I think most people don't realize that a lot of what IPv6 fixes means you don't need to deal with the IP address directly so often.

Also, any program that converts an IP address to an integer (or goes the other way) would require a new look-up table. Which I guess wouldn't be that bad but it seems unnecessary to me.

It's a neat hack, but I think it's creates almost as much trouble as it solves. Especially since reading off an unabbreviated address would require 16 words (yes, it is easier, but not drastically so). Do people really want to read off "dem bag:bip nog:kep lip:bep nig:bot dad:kip dug:bap him:hod fum"? It's also very difficult to audibly differentiate between some of these words (e.g. "mom", "nom" or "mug" "nug"). The only use I see for this is reading off an IP address, so I think that would need to be fixed. It's also not easy to memorize (I, personally, don't think I could memorize a nonsensical 16-word sequence). It'd take me less time to get DNS working. I think a 128 bit number is rather "unfriendly" no matter how you dress it up.