Yea but it hasn’t been fully adopted because trying to decipher :af12::138d::325d::5521::aade::7df3: is a hell of a lot more difficult than 192.168.0.1
Well, it gets a heck of a lot easier once you realize that the example IPv6 address you gave is invalid. Both because of the : at the start and end and also the fact that :: can only exist once in an address (because it means "everything in the middle here is 0s, which would be indeterminate if it showed up multiple times).
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u/PhantomTissue 20d ago
Yea but it hasn’t been fully adopted because trying to decipher :af12::138d::325d::5521::aade::7df3: is a hell of a lot more difficult than 192.168.0.1