The design of IPv6 is for computers, not for humans. How do you even say an IPv6 address aloud? You need to be able to communicate "192 dot 168 dot 50 dot 1" over a voice medium.

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Dylan16807 4 days ago | parent | next [-]

That has very little to do with 8 versus 16 bytes.

Edit: And not only can you make your own addresses short, if I look up some IPv6 addresses meant to be said/remembered (public DNS IPs), none of them make you type more than 8 bytes (and that one repeats a cluster to make it easier) and some make you type as little as 4 bytes.

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herczegzsolt 4 days ago | parent | prev [-]

If your IPv6 address is more complicated than your password, you have bigger problems.

Remembering and communicating mildly complex byte sequences should be an issue which is solved already.

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deathanatos 4 days ago | parent | next [-]

> Remembering and communicating mildly complex byte sequences should be an issue which is solved already.

It is solved already, it's called DNS.

	▲	userbinator 4 days ago \| parent [-]
		...except when DNS doesn't work. IPv4 addresses are not any more difficult to remember than phone numbers, but the same can't be said of IPv6.

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homebrewer 4 days ago | parent | prev [-]

Diceware is way easier to share over the phone than any IPv6 address (except for the few vanity ones like Google's 2001:4860:4860::8888 — then it's only slightly easier).

https://www.eff.org/dice