See https://twitter.com/dave_universetf/status/1342685822286360576 to which I heartily concur. IPV6 addresses are neither easy for humans to read, nor easy for software to parse.
*If* someone has a better idea, there’s no good reason not to standardize it, the old approach would still work. Does anyone have a better idea?
[*shuffles off to try to think of a better idea*]
