> Router's don't care much about the host stuff... Sure. But, I was addressing mixmastamyk's assertion: > I'm not a big fan of 128 bit addresses with ipv6, th

> Router's don't care much about the host stuff... Sure. But, I was addressing mixmastamyk's assertion: > I'm not a big fan of 128 bit addresses with ipv6, they are too long to read and write. Does anyone know why 64 bits was not good enough? [0] If you're okay with writing and reading 64-bit hex strings, [1] the part that matters to most folks is the host identification part, which is 64 bits long. :) [0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10837317 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10837317 [1] I'm not... that's why I use DNS.