[AusNOG] World IPv6 Day

[John.Gibbins at csiro.au]

Couldn't we just have the libraries that display the address use ASCII instead of hex?  That way a 64 bit interface address could represent an arbitrary 8 char string.  

eg 2001:db9:4865:6c6c:6f20:576f:726c:6421=> 2001:db9:"Hello World!"

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-----Original Message-----
From: ausnog-bounces at lists.ausnog.net [mailto:ausnog-bounces at lists.ausnog.net] On Behalf Of Richard Bayliss
Sent: Thursday, 9 June 2011 11:19 AM
To: Narelle
Cc: ausnog at ausnog.net
Subject: Re: [AusNOG] World IPv6 Day

Careful Narelle,

Otherwise soon there will be a proposal for IPv8 which includes support for all of the missing english and non-english characters.

Yikes!

Cheers
Rich



On 09/06/2011, at 9:54 AM, Narelle wrote:

> That is really clever.
> 
> I admit I've been struggling with these Very Big Addresses for a
> while, til Skeeve pointed out all I should do is make words! Mind you
> we were talking about memorable things like abba.
> 
> It's kinda hard when you've got whole IPv4 addressing plans burnt into
> your brain...
> 
> I'm going to have to keep a note somewhere of favourite ping6 and
> traceroute6 destinations for those routine connectivity tests, but
> really, we might even be able to remember 2620::1c00:0:face:b00c:0:2
> or 2001:420:80:1:c:15c0:d06:f00d !!
> 
> Just gorgeous. Truly, What's not to love!!?
> 
> Narelle
> 
> 
> On Thu, Jun 9, 2011 at 9:06 AM, Lincoln Dale <ltd at cisco.com> wrote:
>> we had a bit of fun too.
>> 
>> ltd-mbp2:~ lincolndale$ dig +short aaaa www.cisco.com
>> 2001:420:80:1:c:15c0:d06:f00d
>> ltd-mbp2:~ lincolndale$
>> 
>> 
>> cheers,
>> 
>> lincoln.
>> On 08/06/2011, at 12:40 PM, Michael Bowe wrote:
>> 
>>> LOL at the facebook IP
>>> 
>>> From: ausnog-bounces at lists.ausnog.net [mailto:ausnog-bounces at lists.ausnog.net] On Behalf Of Matthew Moyle-Croft
>>> 
>>> dig +short www.facebook.com aaaa
>>> 2620::1c00:0:face:b00c:0:2
> 
> 
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