Why IPv6 use colon as delimiter instead of dot? [closed]
I looked through the older IPv6 RFCs in order to find a clue about the history, but I think the answer lies in RFC 4291 section 2.2.3: 3. An alternative form that is sometimes more convenient when dealing with a mixed environment of IPv4 and IPv6 nodes is x:x:x:x:x:x:d.d.d.d, where the ‘x’s are the hexadecimal …