On Thu, 3 Oct 2019 at 11:34, Jens Link <[email protected]> wrote: > > The new successor to IPv4 should not make the same mistakes as IPv6. > [...]
> - It MUST only have numbers and dots "." > Maybe we should allow IPv6 addresses to be written in dotted quad format with the quads not being limited to 0..255 but instead 0..4294967295 So instead of writing 2001:4860:4860::8888 we would write 536954976.1214251008.0.34952 which is clearly easier to use. bonus: your old regex ^[0-9]*\.[0-9]*\.[0-9]*\.[0-9]*$ will still work Aled
