No. There’s no way around IPv6 addresses being 4 times as long as IPv4 addresses. I mean, Google DNS is 2001:4860:4860::8888, and in the IPv4 style it would ha

No. There’s no way around IPv6 addresses being 4 times as long as IPv4 addresses. I mean, Google DNS is 2001:4860:4860::8888, and in the IPv4 style it would have been: 32.1.72.96.72.96.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.136.136 I’m sure if IPv6 were formatted like IPv4, Google would have formatted the address differently, like, 32.1.72.96.72.96.0.0.0.0.0.0.8.8.8.8 The point is there is no way around the address being uncomfortably long, and doing it in a new style with hexadecimal allows both easier manual calculation of the address and an opportunity to truncate all those 0s in manually allocated addresses.