have that be the invisible bottom layer. come up with a list of 256 common words, one per byte, and have that be the human visible IP address. mentally reading a string of words, however nonsensical, is way easier than a soup of undifferentiated hex digits.
replyEasier if you’re a native English speaker. Harder if you’re not.
replyMy only gripe with IPv6 addresses is they look too similar to MAC addresses. But as a representation, I think they’re absolutely fine.
Far easier to use ipv8, which just has 5 octets instead of 4.
replyWe have that variant of IPv8, it's what CGNAT gives you, especially if you run MAP-E or MAP-T (which are technically not quite NAT, but kinda are, it's… complicated). You take some bits from the port number and essentially repurpose them into part of the address.
replyIt's a nice band-aid technology, no less and no more.
That still means replacing every part of the chain.
reply