> Having more than a single valid form of an address again only serves to confuse. That's not fair. Features like this obviously have a purpose. (It makes a

> Having more than a single valid form of an address again only serves to confuse. That's not fair. Features like this obviously have a purpose. (It makes a whole lot of IPv6 addresses a whole lot shorter to type!). You may not like it or use it or think that the complexity tradeoff was worth it, and that's a reasonable position to take, but it's not fair to say that the other perspective serves no purpose.