Patrick O'Keefe wrote:
It will be "simpler" with IPv6. The numbers are in hex without need for any format indicator.
I think IPv6 addresses will actually be more difficult to scan for. You can optionally specify :: (two colons) anywhere in the address to denote any number of zeros, leading zeros after a colon are optional, and you are often allowed to specify an IPv4 formatted address at the extreme right side of the address to describe an IP address that happens to be in the IPv4 space. It's highly unlikely that everyone will code any two IPv6 addresses exactly alike!
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