arcanicanis on Nostr: Yes, something else than colons may have been preferable, however hexadecimal ...
Yes, something else than colons may have been preferable, however hexadecimal absolutely was a practical choice: you could split subnet allocations by each digit (4-bits), which you can’t do with base-10 dotted-decimal in IPv4. I’d argue it’s easier to teach subnetting with IPv6 than with IPv4.
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2024-02-06 07:42:00Event JSON
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